Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

I know everything.

Yeah, sure.

And he says, can you tell me why it is for you Europeans that your only response to a problem is to want to solve it?

What's up with you?

What do you do with a problem except solve it?

And I'll never forget what he said to me.

We were talking in Swahili, but he said more or less, he said, a problem is an invitation to self-transcendence.

And if all you do with the problem is solve it, life will just give you another problem.

And if your response to the second problem is to solve it, life will give you a third problem.

And so we're here in order to transcend.

We're here with the limitations that we've accepted.

And there's four great limitations we've come down with, it seems to me.

The first thing is the limitation of our size.

We who are cosmic beings who inhabited the cosmos are now stuck in these little, in my case, 150-pound spacesuits.

The second thing is we who have cosmic intelligence who co-created the cosmos with God are now operating with this little three-pound laptop between our ears.

The third one is that this one is so small that we can't grok the entire gestalt of our experiences.

So we break them up into bite-sized pieces and we process them sequentially, giving rise to the illusion of time.

And the fourth thing is we have amnesia completely for where we came from, who we are and what our mission is.

And so we agree to these four kind of restrictions because the idea is, can you be blindfolded and still find your way home?

And can you still remember that you're God?