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Some quotations from the book Everything Belongs by Franciscan priest, Richard Rohr.

The nature of the ego is that it tries to fix, name, control, and insure everything for itself. We want predictability. But that fixes us in the past. What was, is, so we are trapped in repeating it and nothing new happens. (62)

When we live out of ego, we impose our demands on reality. But when we live in God's presence, we await reality's demands on us. (63)

This may seem odd, coming from a Center of Action and Contemplation that works to improve people's lives and is committed to social change, but after eight years at the center I'm convinced that I must primarily teach contemplation. I've seen far too many activists who are not the answer. Their head answer is largely correct but the energy, the style, and the soul are not. So if they bring about the so-called revolution they are working for, I don't want to be a part of it... They might have the answer, but they are not themselves the answer... Jesus and the great spiritual teachers primarily emphasized transformation of the consciousness and soul. Unless that happens, there is no revolution. (73-74)

The real question is "What does this have to say to me?" Those who are totally converted come to every experience and ask not whether or not they liked it, but what does it have to teach them. "What's the message in this for me? What's the gift in this for me? How is God in this event? Where is God in this suffering?" (91)