So much worth thinking about here...if nothing else, start at 8:42 (1:35 to go). An amazingly succinct description of our addiction to externals, rather than internals.
The more you are preoccuped with forms, the externals, the less you've experienced the internal, the mystery of things; the less you can talk about matters of the heart, what's going on inside.
-- Richard Rohr
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