Leave me Alone!!!!!

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?