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Author: [[Richard Rohr]] Full Title: Yes, And… Category: #books I have to risk writing, as every spiritual writer does, and I must be willing to be judged wrong by others more intelligent, wiser, and holier than I. But this is the leap that I and all others must also make in order to communicate that bit of the Great Truth of the Gospel to which we each have our own access. With this access point, God becomes more a verb than a noun, more a process than a conclusion, more an experience than a dogma, more a personal relationship than an idea. There is Someone dancing with you and you no longer need to prove to anyone that you are right, nor are you afraid of making mistakes. Another word for that is faith. +Adapted from The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, p. 23. He wrote that spirituality is not to encourage willfulness, but in fact willingness.4 Spirituality creates willing people who let go of their need to be first, to be right, to be saved, to be superior, and to define themselves as better than other people. That game is over and gone and if we haven’t come to the willing level—“not my will, but Thy will be done,” as Jesus says (Matthew 26:39)—then I think the Bible will almost always be misused. Eucharist is intentionally shocking. It is cannibalistic, intimate, invasive, and sexual! Jesus did not say, “Think about this,” “Fight about this,” “Stare at this.” He just said, “Eat this” and “Do this.” Eucharist is a dynamic, interactive event that makes one out of two, just as sexual union does when two lovers want to be inside each other. “If I eat and am not eaten, then God is in me, but I am not yet in God.”

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Yes, And… by Richard Rohr presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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