Acceptance
Alice Walker, Anything We Love Can Be Saved
The Oriental Orthodox Order in the West is an order of sages, women and men devoted to the path of wisdom and the spiritual transformation of humanity through the teachings and practice of Yeshua, as Wisdom Master.
The mysteries of the universe do not lie primarily in the universal laws and principles, even though these are mysterious enough. What is most mysterious and miraculous about the universe is its concrete particularity, its every object and inhabitant, each of which is ultimately unfathomable. -- William Chittick.
My daily affairs are quite ordinary;
but I'm in total harmony with them.
I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything;
nowhere an obstacle or conflict.
Who cares about wealth and honor?
Even the poorest thing shines.
My miraculous power and spiritual activity:
drawing water and carrying wood. -- Layman P'ang
Dive down into your self,
and there you will find the steps
by which you might ascend.
Modernity can be called "posthistorical" because it too offers no scope for radical change, even if this idea seems paradoxical at first stight. The present age is surely the Age of Change if there ever was one, but this must not obscure the fact that the flood of changes released in modern times consists mostly of changes that affect only matters of detail and technique, and for no great time at that. On all essentials modern civilization is now just as immobilistic as that of the early Middle Ages. It is designed for the production of endless minor changes in all manner of restricted realms, with all energies mobilized for this purpose under the headings of industry and bureaucracy, and hardly any deviations of effort are permitted from these priorities. ... the final result [is] to make change so all-pervasive that every change will be countered by another one before it can make any difference, and the only permanent condition left will be just this condition where all forces cancel one another out (14).