Highlights
Our work today takes us into the challenging writing of Ladislaus Boros. Although the quotations you will hear are dense, don’t put pressure on yourself to fully understand what is being put forth here. More likely, the light of his insights will come gradually over time. Allow this, then, to just wash over you, and trust that recognition will come when it will.
Guided Reflection
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Cited Quotations
Yeshua says...
Give attention to the Living Presence
while you are alive
so that when you die
and have the desire to do so,
you may have the power to attend.
Logion 59, The Gospel of Thomas
In death the individual existence takes its place on the confines of all being, suddenly awake, in full knowledge and liberty. The hidden dynamism of existence by which a man has lived until then—though without his ever have been able to exploit it in its fullest measure—is now brought to completion, freely and consciously. Man’s deepest being comes rushing towards him. With it comes all at once and all together the universe he has always borne hidden within himself, the universe with which he was already most intimately united, and which, in one way or another, was always being produced from within him.
Ladislaus Boros
Humanity, too, everywhere driven by a like force, a humanity that bears within itself, all unsuspecting, a splendor he could never have imagined, also comes rushing toward him. Being flows toward him like a boundless stream of things, meanings, persons and happenings, ready to convey him right into the Godhead. Yes; God himself stretches out his hand for him; God who, in every stirring of his existence, had been in him as his deepest mystery, from the stuff of which he had always been forming himself; God who had ever been driving him on towards an eternal destiny. There now man stands, free to accept or reject this splendor. In a last, final decision he either allows this flood of realities to flow past him, while he stands there eternally turned to stone, like a rock past which the life-giving stream flows on, noble enough in himself no doubt, but abandoned and eternally alone; or he allows himself to be carried along by this flood, becomes part of it and flows on into eternal fulfillment.”
Ladislaus Boros
Reflection Questions
What does “consent” feel like in your body…?
Is there a particular spot in your body where the key to your consent resides…?
What is the difference between consent and capitulation…? Do these two different movements find different expressions in your body…?
Because we have broached the subject of death in our Advent work, are you experiencing any resistance…? If so, where in your body does it find expression…? Might you even consent to your resistance…?