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Life appears in the most amazing, kaleidoscopic array. When a youth, I read of a person seeing the front of a tapestry. When moving to the front, she beheld a beautiful image of Mary holding the baby Jesus. On the back, disarray, on the front, order. Is this not the way of the Way? Humanity and its societies and cultures can appear in chaos, while the Way, untouched, moves amid it all.
Do we not miss, at times, the remarkable symmetry within the diversity, by focusing only on what is different, rather than how differences are parts of an amazing, sacred presentation? And socially, when the world around us looks like mayhem, can we trust, amid it, an order yet to become seen, an arrangement to arise out of the disorder itself?
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About persons, there is beauty to be seen by each and all of us in the other. The vision of the other appears little-by-little, always more to manifest. And even not-seeing happens in Grace and by Grace, and the refusal to include happens within Boundlessness, Love embraces lovelessness.
We can include within ourselves a fearless seeing of how we often fail to see, and some beauty in the other we cannot yet see. Usually slowly, sometimes by a way we do not know, our heart opens a bit more fearlessly to what before seemed a threat to our being and understanding of how the world should be.
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So, in welcoming otherness, we welcome the otherness we are. Otherness welcomes otherness and finds each the mirror of the other. The strangeness of the other is the strangeness we each are.
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To see more gracefully
is to see beauty where others
cannot see beauty,
is to invite beauty into our being
where others refuse
to host beauty.
Prejudice is a curtain of darkness
thrown over the Heart.
Yet, the Heart still
sees.
And a joy of transcending prejudice
is to see the Grace and Loveliness we
had never seen before.
This means we see ourselves as
we could not before,
by opening ourselves to
the other,
welcoming
the other
into ourselves.
Indeed, in the otherness of the other, we find
the Splendor of Grace smiling back at us,
receiving us with hospitality, saying, "Welcome, Home!"
In the deepest sense, we are Home and, therefore,
we are Home for we cannot not be already
together in how the True Self
is adorned through
each of us.
This being true,
our differences only appear
to divide what cannot be divided, and
we come to know
that there is
this here.
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