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Let us make humans in Our image. ~ Genesis 1:26 Our DNA is divine. The divine indwelling is never earned by any behavior whatsoever or any ritual, but only recognized and realized (Romans 11:6, Ephesians 2:8-10), and fallen in love with. When you are ready, you will be both underwhelmed and overwhelmed at the boundless mystery of your own humanity. You will know you are standing under the same waterfall of mercy as everybody else and receiving an undeserved radical grace, which waters the "roots" of everything.

   God always entices us through love.

As a people, we are afraid of silence. That’s our major barrier to prayer. 

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It  is our light,not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God, your playing small doesn't serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.  We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

The ability to stand back and calmly observe our inner dramas, without rushing to judgment, is foundational for spiritual seeing.  It is the primary form of "dying to the self" that Jesus lived personally and the Buddha taught experientially.  The growing consensus is that, whatever you call it, such calm, egoless seeing is invariably characteristic of people at the highest levels of doing and loving in all cultures and religions.  They are the ones we call sages or wise women or holy men.  They see like the mystics see.

You cannot live without dreams. Dreams foster hope, and hope is one of the forces by which men and women live.

Psalm 25 suggests that we need to ask God for guidance if we are going to be living the ways of the Holy One. God can and will direct our paths if we are open, attentive and listening. For our part, we need to be patient, consistent in praying daily, willing to consult wise persons and we need to regularly check our motivation -- "Why am I doing what I do?"   St. Ignatius insists that a key way to know if we are doing

   The power that is contained in sexual desire is equivalent in the human being of a tremendous oil well.  It might seem perplexing to think of desire as fuel, but think of what great lengths we will go to in order to satisfy our desires...Sex is a storehouse of power.

You cannot live without dreams. Dreams foster hope, and hope is oneof the forces by which men and women live. To dream is the easiest thing in the world. There are no limitationsto dreaming. But as we grow we experience pain, failure, criticism, anddisappointment, and we gradually limit our