4.3.22 … “Awe and wonder are terms that are often correlative with mystery. All fundamentalist religion is terribly uncomfortable with mystery;”

“Solvitur Ambulando” – It is solved by walking, 2022 Labyrinth Walks, 2022 Lenten Labyrinth Walks (31/40), Finger Labyrinth Walk @ Home-Charlotte NC:

After 575 miles in the car yesterday, I picked up my finger labyrinth and walked. As I walked, I was reminded of this quote, a favorite Rohr quote. So I searched it out.

It is one that I have posted many times. It’s very interesting that during Lent which is basically retracing a path of suffering for 40 days leads us to a path of wonder and awe.

“Through I might be oversimplifying, but I think there are basically two paths that allow people to have a genuinely new experience: the path of wonder and the path of suffering. When you allow yourself to be led into awe and wonder, when you find yourself in an aha! moment and you savor it consciously (remember that joy and happiness take a minimum of fifteen conscious seconds to imprint on your neurons), then you can have a genuinely new experience; otherwise, you will fit everything back into your old paradigm, and it won’t really be an experience at all. It will at best be a passing diversion, a momentary distraction from your common “cruise control” of thoughts and feelings. That’s all. Awe and wonder are terms that are often correlative with mystery. All fundamentalist religion is terribly uncomfortable with mystery;”

SOURCE: “The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation” by Richard Rohr

I like walking on the wonder/awe path.

4.3.22