http://signposts.cowpi.com Words pointing… Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:48:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it. -- Richard Rohr, Things Hidden http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/if-we-do-not-transform-our-pain God comes to us disguised as our life. -- Paula D'Arcy http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/god-comes-to-us-disguised-as The Bible will not make transformation dependent on cleverness at all, but in one of God's favorite and most effective hiding places--humility. -- Richard Rohr, Things Hidden http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/the-bible-will-not-make-transformation-dependent-on Most people in my experience are still into fearing God and controlling God instead of loving God. -- Richard Rohr, Things Hidden http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/still-into-fearing-god-and-controlling-god-instead-of Overexplanation separates us from astonishment. -- Eugene Ionesco http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/overexplanation-separates Grief Work "Grief work" [is] holding the mystery of pain and looking right at it and learning deeply from it. -- Richard Rohr, Things Hidden http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/grief-work By Some Other Means Than Forgiveness As long as you can deal with evil by some other means than forgiveness, you will never experience the real meaning of evil and sin. -- Richard Rohr, Things Hidden http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/by-some-other-means-than-forgiveness Jesus Christ is both the medium and the message. -- Richard Rohr, Things Hidden http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/the-medium-and-the-message Jesus was precisely the "once and for all" sacrifice given to reveal the lie and absurdity of the very notion and necessity of "sacrificial" religion itself. -- Richard Rohr, Things Hidden http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/the-lie-and-absurdity-of-sacrificial-religion Presence does not happen in the mind. -- Richard Rohr, Things Hidden http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/presence There's an old saying, "Life begins at forty." That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up. -- George Burns http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/life-begins-at Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head. -- Ray Bradbury http://signposts.cowpi.com/northwest/ideas-result-from