Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Day 25 of 30 Days of Compassion: Explore the Center for Action & Contemplation

Day 25 of 30 Days of Contemplation from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Learn About Franciscan Richard Rohr's Center for Action and Contemplation

https://cacradicalgrace.org/

Mission & Vision

Our Vision

The Center for Action and Contemplation supports a new reformation—from the inside—
~ In the spirit of a Cosmic Christ
~ Confirming people's deeper spiritual intuitions
~ Encouraging actions of justice rooted in prayer
~ With a new appreciation for, and cooperation with,
other denominations, religions, and cultures

Our Mission
“We are a center for experiential education, rooted in the Gospels, encouraging the transformation of human consciousness through contemplation, and equipping people to be instruments of peaceful change in the world.”

The Eight Core Principles of the Center for Action and Contemplation

1. The teaching of Jesus is our central reference point.
2. We need a contemplative mind in order to do compassionate action.
3. The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. Oppositional energy only creates more of the same.
4. Practical truth is more likely found at the bottom and the edges than at the top or the center of most groups, institutions, and cultures.
5. We will support true authority, the ability to "author" life in others, regardless of the group.
6. Life is about discovering the right questions more than having the right answers.

7. True religion leads us to an experience of our True Self and undermines my false self.

8. We do not think ourselves into a new way of living, but we live ourselves into a new way of thinking.



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