"Happiness is finally an inside job. We are too often 'reeds swaying in the breeze' (Matt. 11:7), dependent moment by moment on others' reaction and approval. This is the modern self: insubstantial, whimsical, totally dependent and calling itself 'free.' I have worked with people in whom I have seen this change: Once they were responding primarily to life outside themselves, but through contact with what I will call 'authentic transcendence,' they're drawing their life from within. They're not letting other people name them. They are named by God, and they have recognized that name as their deepest and truest self."
Richard Rohr
"What the Mystics Know"
Photo: Half Dome at sunrise, Yosemite National Park, CA, July 23, 2015
"What the Mystics Know"
Photo: Half Dome at sunrise, Yosemite National Park, CA, July 23, 2015
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