The Fourth Companion

October 08, 2004

I ♥ Huckabees

From The Movie Director who Made Me a Priest:

Jesus would say this is true: If your spirituality is about your ego, then your spirituality is fake. Our ego likes to control things, to have certainty. Certainty is very useful. If it wasn't, we'd be sitting in our own excrement. But, that certainty can really close your mind off to the true light of Jesus and to the truth about what is. This film is about "departure points"—departures from certainty and the ego.

The whole idea ... is this: When you're stuck in traffic, and you're cursing ... at that moment you think that that's what your life is about. If Jesus was there, he'd say to you every two minutes, "Child, what do you think you are right now?"

I've got to read you a quote! This is a quote from W. H. Auden: "We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die."

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