Some worthwhile Quotes/Statements:

            We must take distance

            from what we like so much,

            from what we feel attached to,

              even from what we have been taught.

                              [take distance - not: deny or discard]

Listen and Unlearn (cf Anthony de Mello Awareness 17) [GCS. It could be me speaking...!]

Some of us get woken up by the harsh realities of life. ... Still, if you haven't been bumped sufficiently by life, and you haven't suffered enough, then there is another way to be awakened: by listening. I don't mean: you have to agree with what I'm saying. That wouldn't be listening. Believe me, it really doesn't matter whether you agree with what I'm saying, or you don't. Because agreement and disagreement have to do with words and concepts and theories. They don't have anything to do with truth. Truth is never expressed in words. Truth is sighted, seen, suddenly, as a result of a certain attitude. So, you could be disagreeing with me and still sight the truth. But there has to be an attitude of openness, of willingness to discover something new. That's important, not your agreeing with me or disagreeing with me.

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Which way to go?

      I shall be telling this with a sigh

somewhere ages and ages hence:

      Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -

I took the one less traveled-by...

      And that has made all the difference Robert Frost from “A Road not Taken”

“To live is to change, and to be alive, is to have changed often” “Entrenched belief, fenced in faith, is never altered by the facts.” Newman

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“The chief evil of the day, Erasmus says, is formalism, a respect for traditions, a regard for what other people think essential, but never a thought of what the true teaching of Christ may be. ... Forms are not in themselves evil. It is only when they hide or quench the spirit that they are to be dreaded.” [Erasmus (art.)]

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“Christianity, for the first time in its history, is faced with a large-scale challenge to the patriarchal interpretation of religion and an increasingly coherent vision of an alternative way of constructing the tradition from its roots.” (Rosemary Radford Ruether RS p.89)

Are you willing to change, or are you stuck, ... because you want to be ‘safe’ ?