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We must try to keep the mind in tranquility. For just as the eye which constantly shifts its gaze, now turning to the right or to the left, now incessantly peering up or down, cannot see distinctly what lies before it,
but the sight must be fixed firmly on the object in view if one would make his vision of it clear; so too man’s mind when distracted by his countless worldly cares cannot focus itself distinctly on the truth.
… St. Basil the Great (330-379)
(Be where you are, and do what you're doing.)
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2 TM 1:1-8; PS 96:1-2A,
2B-3, 7-8A, 10
MK 4:26-34
Jesus said to the crowds:
“This is how it is with the Kingdom of God;
it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land
and would sleep and rise night and day
and the seed would sprout
and grow,
he knows not how.
Of its own accord the land yields fruit,
first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once,
for the harvest has come.”
He said,
“To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God,
or what parable can we use for it?
It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground,
is the
smallest of all the seeds on the earth.
But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants
and puts forth large branches,
so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.”
With many such parables
he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it.
Without parables he did not speak to them,
but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.
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Mark 4:26-34 (The mustard seed)
The kingdom of God will conquer, Jesus assures us, for God’s will is sovereign. Grace reaches deeper than sin; evil will be uprooted.
• Do you believe you have made progress in your life in growing closer to Christ during the past few months? Years? How has grace transformed you?
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Do you feel hopeful about God’s kingdom conquering evil? Why? Why not? How does this affect your everyday attitude?
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God and I: Exploring the Connections between God, Self and Ego, by Philip St. Romain, 2016 (2nd ed.) ____________ Chapter 6: The Journey to Individuation: The Ego-Self Relationship Egotism, Egoism and Individuation Philosophically, individuation resonates with the concept of essence mentioned earlier, indicating how a thing or person is uniquely distinct from other things or people, and how that is so. Jung’s psychology complements this understanding, emphasizing that unconscious potentialities in
the psyche must become integrated in the interest of developing the individual consciousness. Jung noted that “the unconscious is a process, and that the psyche is transformed or developed by the relationship of the ego to the contents of the unconscious.” Individuation is the term he used in reference to this process of transformation, and he considered it the “central concept of my psychology.” We note, here, the role of the Ego in Jung’s psychology. For Jung, the Ego is the conscious and responsible part of the psyche. We have defined it as the experience of Self that we experience in reflecting/intentional consciousness. These two understandings are similar in their emphasis on conscious awareness and responsibility, which is one of the imperatives flowing from reflectivity. Therefore, Jung’s writings on individuation have relevance to
the concern of this chapter.
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