"The dance is necessary because we cannot stay inside the Grail chamber. But neither can we stay outside in a state of alienation. All we can do is stay in the dance back and forth between inside and outside.
Gerald May says the same thing in his book Addiction and Grace. We cannot stay in a state of experiencing grace every moment. That's a pseudo-tower. It will only inflate us, and then make us rigid. The best we can do it seems is to persevere in the two-step: the dance between grace and addiction, where God always leads and we sometimes follow. We are, in fact, all fighting little addictions. Maybe it's some little mental pattern. Some small vanity. Or some little way of having our way. We try to be in charge, to grab a moment of control in a chaotic world. Those addictions can eat us up, those process addictions - even more than the drinkable addictions. The only way to give them up is through pain. We will not abdicate being central and important and right until pain forces us to do so. Until there is blood."
Richard Rohr
Quest for the Grail
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