Does it concern you that maybe other people feel that you don't fit the image that we have created for the governor's wife in Arkansas? You're not a native, you've been educated in liberal Eastern universities, you're less than 40. The thought occurs to me that you really don't fit the image that we have created for the governor's wife in Arkansas. It started in the 1970s when she challenged the cookie cutter role laid out for her as First Lady of Arkansas. Hillary Rodham Clinton had a complicated relationship with the public. It's everything from how you dress and what your hairstyle is to how loudly you speak or how loudly you laugh or who you are seen with or. Listen at the link below.It is a constant balancing act. I’m grateful for my time with Father Richard and the loving staff of the Center for Action and Contemplation.

When religion does not give people an inner life or a real prayer life, it is missing its primary vocation.” It solidifies angers, creates enemies, and is almost always exclusionary of the most recent definition of ‘sinner.’ At this level, it is largely incapable of its supreme tasks of healing, reconciling, forgiving, and peacemaking. I also love what he writes about religion: “When religion does not move people to the mystical or non-dual level of consciousness it is more a part of the problem than any solution whatsoever. This quote from “Breathing Under Water” is so simple yet so hard: “All mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning.” We talked about my favorite quotes from two of his books that have been an important part of my recovery: “Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps” and “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life.” He thoroughly delighted in that last part. We laughed, I cried a little, we laughed some more, and I told him why his work pisses me off sometimes. I flew to Albuquerque to spend the day with Father Richard Rohr. In the face of change, maintaining the status quo, avoiding, not acting, staying still is a decision in itself which threatens our identity & sense of self We are making choices and decisions on a daily basis. We are brillaint at making bad predictions of what might go wrong and terrible at forecasting te unexpected delights we might find. I always say that courage rewards in unexpected ways and if you don’t get the outcome you had hoped for your sense of self will be resolved and stronger for it because you acted in alignments with your values purpose and good intent. The greater risk will always be living with regret for inaction.

Yet that same logic also means that we are underestimating (and often can’t ever see) what gains might await us on the otherside of choosing courage, making values aligned decisions.

From my research, what I’ve found about how we attend to risks & fears, whether that may be conscious or not conscious is that we can overestimate losses and underestimate gains.Īpplied to change and threats to our sense of self, this means we focus on attending to behaviours and decision that avoid the risk of pain, shame, vulnerability etc

Maya shankar and jimmy li