Posts Tagged ‘atonement|quest-magazine-2012-09’

What, I ask myself, does it take to live in at-one-ment? I can imagine the road I need to travel from where I am now to a place of living in at-one-ment with myself, with my friends and family, with my neighbors, with the world…

I’m not interested in who suffered the most. I’m interested in people getting over it.

Speak out the paralyzing secret and begin to come back to yourself.

If we hadn’t learned it already from reading the Ecclesiastes section of the Hebrew Bible (what Christians call the Old Testament), many of us absorbed this piece of scripture through a musical rendition by Pete Seeger or The Byrds.

“Who will journey to the place we require of humans?” asks the poet, Sonia Sanchez. This question from her poem “Aaaayeee Babo (Praise God)” has become scripture to me in recent months.

There is a profound ground of unity that is more pertinent and authentic than all the unilateral dimensions of our lives.