Prophetic Witness — Rebecca Parker

by | 10/23/2022 | Wisdom - Before Now | 0 comments

Our times ask us to exercise our capacity for prophetic witness. By prophetic witness I mean our capacity to see what is happening, to say what is happening and to act in accordance with what we know. Prophetic witness is the ability to name those places where we resist knowing what needs to be known.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Rebecca Parker b. 1953

Can you recall a time when it fell to you to be a “prophetic witness”?  How did it go?

Quote source: First Light Meditation, Reverend Galen Guengerich

 

 

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Light in the Darkness — Hannah Arendt

by | 06/07/2022 | Wisdom - Before Now | 0 comments

Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination… Such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth.          Hannah Arendt, 1906 – 1975

source: First Light Meditation

 

 

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Strange Jewels — Elizabeth Gilbert

by | 02/03/2022 | Wisdom - Before Now | 0 comments

Surely something wonderful is sheltered inside you. I say this with all confidence, because I happen to believe we are all walking repositories of buried treasure. I believe this is one of the oldest and most generous tricks the universe plays on us human beings, both for its own amusement and for ours: The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.
Elizabeth Gilbert, b. 1969
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