Jan '24 • General Discussion
Community
Challenging thoughts on community below. Curious about your personal experience and thoughts (from an integral perspective?) on community. Do you agree/disagree with the quotes?
I feel the tension here - between on one hand wanting a "curated" community of people on the same page, and on the other questioning if only having community like that is "artificial".
Has anyone found it "easier" to embrace community as you progress along your growth path?
"Building beloved community is not about loving those who are easy to love, it's cultivating love for those who are difficult to love... If you're not struggling to love people, not trying to build understanding with those you disagree with, you're not really doing the work of building beloved community" - Father Richard Rohr (slightly paraphrased)
"Anyone who has tried to live in community with others knows how beset with pain and difficulties such a life is! Perhaps that is why the pews in our churches are row on row, and why in less obvious ways we have put distance between ourselves and others. We have not wanted to suffer in any serious way the encountering of one another, all unaware that avoidance deprives us of community."
--- Elizabeth O'Connor
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