Food For Thought
But the saints and mystics say, “When I’m nobody,
I’m everybody!”
When I’m no one,
I’m at last every one.
When I’m nothing, I’m everything. When I’m empty, I’m full.
This is why so few people truly seek an authentic spiritual life.
Who wants to be nothing? We’ve been told the whole point was to be somebody.
John of the Cross expressed it this way:
To come to the pleasure you have not, you must go by a way in which you enjoy not.
To come to the knowledge you have not, you must go by a way in which you know not.
To come to the possession you have not, you must go by a way in which you possess not.
To come to be what you are not, you must go by a way in which you are not.
Rev. Richard Rhor
