What are the essential qualities of faith in all religious groups. I suggest the three H's.
Honoring of all parts within and without while not allowing any part to permanently or powerfully dominant the system,
Honestly speaking for any and all parts in me and listening to all parts in you with compassion, courage, and calmness.
Humility is embodied with multi deference and multi differences and the multiplicity of parts and the essential sameness of all. Humility invites all parts to step aside and step forward.
When we all practice these three: humility, honor, and honesty we experience community in the multiversity of the multiplicity of all.
The church in whatever its structure and all religious institutions whatever their structure fundamentally denies its essence when it lives in duplicity, dishonesty and distinctives that serve its ego need and desire rather than its core of compassion, calmness, and courage.
To quote Soren Kierkegaard, "To know the truth and not be the truth is to embellish that very truth with error".
About Me
- Don Paine
- I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.
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