November Navigators ~ AF Week Four
Ok. This post is in honor of our Dill and Red as I am generally about as spiritual as a brick.
I chanced upon the following quote years ago in the prologue to a science fiction book and liked it very much. Very interesting fellow unknown to me before this (priest, philosopher, paleontologist etc). In case you haven?t seen it:
The masters of the spiritual life incessantly repeat that God wants only souls. To give those words their true value, we must not forget that the human soul, however independently created our philosophy represents it as being, is inseparable, in its birth and in its growth, from the universe into which it is born?. It is we who, through our own activity, must industriously assemble the widely scattered elements. The labor of seaweed as it concentrates in its tissues the substances scattered, in infinitesimal quantities, throughout the vast layers of ocean; the industry of bees as they make honey from the juices broadcast in so many flowers--these are but pale images of the ceaseless working-over that all the forces of the universe undergo in us in order to reach the level of spirit. Thus, every man, in the course of his life?makes his own soul throughout his earthly days; and at the same time he collaborates in another work?the completing of the world.
--From The Divine Milieu by Teilhard De Chardin, 1960
Thanks you two for keeping us thinking and reflecting on the existential aspects of recovery. Love, Ladybird.
Ok. This post is in honor of our Dill and Red as I am generally about as spiritual as a brick.
I chanced upon the following quote years ago in the prologue to a science fiction book and liked it very much. Very interesting fellow unknown to me before this (priest, philosopher, paleontologist etc). In case you haven?t seen it:The masters of the spiritual life incessantly repeat that God wants only souls. To give those words their true value, we must not forget that the human soul, however independently created our philosophy represents it as being, is inseparable, in its birth and in its growth, from the universe into which it is born?. It is we who, through our own activity, must industriously assemble the widely scattered elements. The labor of seaweed as it concentrates in its tissues the substances scattered, in infinitesimal quantities, throughout the vast layers of ocean; the industry of bees as they make honey from the juices broadcast in so many flowers--these are but pale images of the ceaseless working-over that all the forces of the universe undergo in us in order to reach the level of spirit. Thus, every man, in the course of his life?makes his own soul throughout his earthly days; and at the same time he collaborates in another work?the completing of the world.
--From The Divine Milieu by Teilhard De Chardin, 1960
Thanks you two for keeping us thinking and reflecting on the existential aspects of recovery. Love, Ladybird.
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