t is an openness to the other—as other—that frees
us for creativity and originality in our response: the other who is somehow
outside my social system or the Absolute Other who gives me a reference point
that relativizes all of my own. It is always an encounter with otherness that
changes me. If I am not open to the beyond-me, I’m in trouble. Without the
other, we are all trapped in a perpetual hall of mirrors that only validates
and deepens our limited and already existing worldviews.
Richard
Rohr
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this day
who will I meet
this day
what will I read
this day
how will the Absolute Other
seek to speak to me?
will I listen?
or will I be too busy talking
to busy defending
internally or externally
my own status quo?
Clink, clunck I go, through another day.
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