Certainly uncertain

In the mailbox this Sunday morning . . .

Certainty creates the uncertain, of that I am certain. Certainly, certainty is problematic.

The ultimate act of solidarity with humanity and with the world is found in bearing the ambiguity, the inconsistencies, and the brokenness of all things, rather than insisting on dividing reality into the good and the bad. We too easily presume that we are one of the “good” people, while largely living in illusion and prejudice. Our lust for certitude has been the justification of much of the violence in human history. – after Richard Rohr.

Patriarchal spiritualities are the antithesis of an embodied and inclusive consciousness. They confuse self-avoidance with awakening, and make it impossible for humanity to recognize and transform the challenging realities before us. Detached from the stuff of our humanness, we become incapacitated with respect to effecting real change. – Rob Brezsny

A thing may be so “because” of a thousand and one reasons of greater or lesser importance… The separate reasons, no matter how valid, are only fragmentary parts of the picture. And the whole necessarily includes all that it impinges on as object and subject, in ripples fading with distance or depending upon the original intensity of the vortex. – John Steinbeck