Thomas Moloughney's Blog – October 2009 Archive (3)

Giving yourself to love is laying yourself bare without knowing how you will be used; knowing that however you are used, you are given to love, in service to love. Whatever your mistakes may be, however you fumble, however you stumble, if it is in service to love it teaches you something. You pick up and you serve love even more strongly. You marry love, and you say, "I am yours." Then whatever beautiful temptations go by, you say, "I am taken. I have given myself to love."



There are… Continue

At the end of the last session of a two week seminar led by intellectuals and experts in their fields, Dr. Papaderos rose from his chair at the back of the room and walked to the front, where he stood in the bright sunlight of an open window and looked out.

He turned. And made the ritual gesture: "Are there any questions?"

Quiet quilted the room. These two weeks had generated enough questions for a lifetime, but for now there was only silence.

"No questions?" Papaderos swept the… Continue

The story is not the enemy. The story is an ally.

It is a signal to look deeper.

As human beings we love stories. We communicate with stories. We pass on our teachings with stories. Stories are deeply valuable to us. But until we are willing to disengage from our stories, at least briefly, we are actually tyrannized by them.

That is the problem. If you are willing to dis-identify with your story for a minute, or an hour, or an afternoon, then there is the recognition that you… Continue