At the heart of all of our dreams of Eternity - of our entry into Presence - one wish must take precedence, that no one be excluded from the atonement and Grace of the Absolute Person.
Remembering this, and understanding its existential significance, we become responsible - thus partaking in the redemptive process that manifests itself as a life centered in compassion.
No matter how hoary our ancestry - how noble our credentials, how sophisticated our philosophical discourse - how bright our scholarship, how fervent our prayer or austere or esoteric our sadhana, without this - a life dedicated in kindness, there is, as yet, no genuine touch from the Lord’s gentle hand.
Religious Communities founded upon, or that degenerate into, anything less are destined to become but congregations of shadows feeding upon the vicissitudes of institutional form and its mimetic compulsions. We need not look too far to witness this in action - and many of us have had first hand experience of such residence in the lands of the soulless.
Only that Communion which dares nurture a garden on the precipice of certainty and doubt, and instils through example the necessary courage to embody tender-heartedness, can truly hope to move forward into Relationship before the Face of Divine Innocence.
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