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Now I see something in my listeners that won’t let me continue this way. The ocean flows back in and puts up a foam barrier, and then withdraws. After a while, it will come in again. This audience wants to…

Words spoken in prayer while we are in ordinary consciousness are linear, perhaps emotion-filled. These same words spoken while we are within Silence reverberate and resound, their resonance spreading out within the infinity of intimate silence. Praying can be mechanical…

The way of Silence is a way of feeling, and the heart is the centre of feeling. When we are able to place our attention into the centre of the heart, we develop the cognition of Silence because feeling is…

We can certainly go into the Silence without the practice of clearing . . . But clearing brings to the forefront new qualities of Silence that transform our inclinations to work for ourselves in more or less selfish ways in…

As Silence becomes more an ongoing aspect of our lives, our perception of things of the world, and of others, changes from one in which we perceive surfaces to one in which we perceive the soul qualities of what is…

When we lose the ability or willingness to be vulnerable, joy becomes something we approach with deep foreboding. . . . We’re always waiting for the other shoe to drop. . . . The concept of foreboding joy as a…

Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It…

Some who are tediously metaphysical might worry that all this talk of union with God blurs the distinction between Creator and creation. Far from blurring this distinction it sets it in sharper focus. John’s Gospel says we are the branches…