And this from a psychology conference!

Human beings are containers for the Mystery expressing itself in all its myriad ways. The more flexible our containers (our capacity to bear catastrophic change), the more can manifest through us.

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The container is an internalizing, integrating function. It is that which turns the soul towards the Good.

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The opposite is the dis-integrating tendency to evacuate experience. As such, it is evil (as Fr. Joseph defined it).

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