If you can learn how to receive the perfect gaze of the Other, to be mirrored by the Other, then the voices of the human crowd, even negative ones, have little power to hurt you.
Best of all, as Meister Eckhart has been quoted, "the eyes with which you will look back at God will be the same eyes with which God first looked at you."
Standing before one, accepting God literally allows you to be composed and gathered into one place. You can be in one place; you can be here, now.
from Richard Rohr's Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality
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I have a kitten who looks just like that.
Great quote. I will think of it when I look at that kitty.
Profound.
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