Openness

Daily Reading for February 16

Openness is not gentility in the social arena. It is not polite listening to people with whom we inherently disagree. It is not political or civil or “nice.” It is not even simple hospitality. It is the munificent abandonment of the mind to new ideas, to new possibilities. Without an essential posture of openness, contemplation is not possible. God comes in every voice, behind every face, in every memory, deep in every struggle. To close off any of them is to close off the possibility of becoming new again ourselves.

From Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light by Joan Chittister (Orbis Books, 2000).

Posted by Vicki K. Black on February 16, 2008 4:00 AM | |
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Oops! "Joan Chittister!"

Alice MacArthur

Posted by A L MacArthur [TypeKey Profile Page] | February 16, 2008 1:56 PM

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