Craving for Reality & Moments of Being

We humans crave reality, but are often distracted from finding it because of what the Buddhists call "monkey mind" on the one hand or our stockpiled ideas, assumptions, and biases on the other. Novelist Virginia Woolf tells us that we can break through to reality in "moments of being," revelatory experiences that the medieval theologian Duns Scotus and the nineteenth-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins also explored. These moments focus on particular things in the world - a daffodil or crowded bus, as Woolf says - which in turn point beyond themselves to a transcendent dimension.

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Interesting! Thank you!🎉❤

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Thanks Fr. Kerry! This Holy Spirit Moment is a wonderful compliment to a book I am currently reading called On Looking: A Walkers Guide to the Art of Observation by Alexandra Horowitz. It is very much about presence and awakening to what is around us.

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Thank you so much for this. I just found your channel and am very glad I did. Scotus's Thisness seems very similar to what the Sufis (Arabi, Iraqi, Rumi) called the infinite attributes of God. A great book by F. Iraqi is Divine Flashes which so beautifully describes the Love affair between lover and Beloved and Unity of us All and God. I look to notice this unfolding dance of Christ each moment also and occasionally by the grace of God I do have eyes to see.
Chuck