“Watch
your mind. I’m not telling you something you can’t experience to be true.
Whenever you divide the field, by words, usually, or by thoughts, for some
stupid reason – and I’m going to say stupid – you immediately judge one to be
higher and one to be lower. I don’t know why it’s true. It’s the foundation of
racism, of sexism, of homophobia, of false patriotism, the nationalism that has
caused most wars in human history. This always dividing the field and for some
damnable reason immediately the mind thinks that this one is good and this one
is bad. Dang it! We’ve got to get beyond this! It is, it is as the alcoholics
would say, “stinkin’ thinkin’.” This is not gonna advance civilization. It is
not going to allow religious people to open to the mystery of God.”
Richard
Rohr in a speech “Experiencing the Naked Now”
