Sunday, August 23, 2020

The Wise Listen

let the wise listen and add to their learning,
    and let the discerning get guidance

-- Proverbs 3:5

Wait, but don't they already have it?


"The moving ever shall stay,” [twelfth-century Hindu mystic and poet] Basava said. Those words contradict so much of our inherited religious sensibility. “Stay the same. Don’t move. Hold on. Survival depends on resistance to change,” we were told again and again. “Foment change. Keep moving. Evolve. Survival depends on mobility,” the Spirit persistently says. . . .

-- Brian McLaren