Martin Sheen — Spirituality of Imagination
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Greatest Mystery of the Church
I have nothing against piety, but i think that piety is the the road, it is not the destination. If being pious leads you to a form of personal reflection, an acceptance of a higher power then it has its purpose. But it has to be discarded in the larger picture, in favor of the community. And true freedom, spirituality, can only be achieved in community even if the community is only imagined. Can living in a cell by themselves, alone in repression, still they are in community. That's the wonderful thing, that image that catholicism uses and refers to as the communion of saints,. Even after we're gone, we're still a part of something that's very
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