WHAT IS LOVE?

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”

Quote from James Baldwin

REFLECTION:

  • Who loves/loved you so much that you were able to take off your mask?
  • Are you wearing a mask now?    How does that mask express? 
  • What mask can you no longer live within? 
  • How can you express more love today to support someone in taking off their mask?

Transmit vs. Transform

If you do not transform your pain, you will transmit it.

Quote from Father Richard Rohr

REFLECTION:

  • Reflect on a pain you have transformed.
  • What is a pain you are wrestling with now? 
  • How can you transform it so you don’t transmit it?

BEGIN

Move from within.  Don’t move the way fear wants you to.  Begin a foolish project.

Quote from RUMI

REFLECTION:

  • What is a “foolish project” you can or must embark upon?
  • What is one thing you can do to begin?