[Thespiritexpress] Paradox and Evolution

[Joyce Pfaffle]

Thanx, Ed.  I'll add the author to my file of this for future use. ❤️

*JOYCE (JOYSEE) PFAFFLE*



On Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 7:40 AM balldinger <balldinger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing this meaningful passage, Joyce. I did some research and
> the quote is attributed to Shane Claiborne, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for
> Ordinary Radicals.
>
> Free all the prisoners! as I've heard Ron say before.
>
> Greetings and unified love to all from Montana!
>
> ~ Ed
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Joyce Pfaffle via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>
> Date: 9/16/25 2:50 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org
> Cc: Joyce Pfaffle <luckyjoysee at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Thespiritexpress] Paradox and Evolution
>
> At  our Tuesday meeting on The Kybalion, I was asked to submit toi Spirit
> Express what I had quoted as we were talking about relative reality and
> living in it while also living with the inspiration of absolute reality.
> This short (anonymous--since I didn't get the source when I copied it years
> ago) piece helps me thru difficult paradoxical situations where it is
> tempting to expel someone for difficult behavior rather than finding ways
> to reconcile and include.  Here is the quote:
>
> Peacemaking doesn't mean passivity.
> It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice;
> the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer;
> the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight.
>
> [It is] but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice.
> It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the
> oppressed and the oppressors free.
> ~Author Unknown~
>
>
>
> --
> *JOYCE (JOYSEE) PFAFFLE*
>
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