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The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is a miracle. Nearly all those who believe they have this capacity do not. Warmth, movements of the heart,…

The orthodoxies that have been handed down to us in the monotheistic religions called for obedience to the commanding God. They threatened with punishment and enticed with rewards – images of hell and heaven resting on that authority . .…

The trivialization of life is perhaps the strongest anti-mystical force among us. Some people are literally obsessed by the compulsion to trivialize everything. . . . For mystical consciousness, it is essential that everything internal become external and be made…

“We’re all mystics!”  That sentence contains in itself the right of every human being to beauty and vision….Mysticism is the experience of the oneness and wholeness of life.  Therefore, mysticism’s perception of life, its vision, is also the unrelenting perception…

There are people who savour God in one way but not in another, and they want to possess God according to one manner of devotion and not another.  I can tolerate this, but it is quite wrong.  If we are…

But mortification – literally, “making death” – is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that is created so that we can appreciate its beauty without clinging to it as if it were a…

All God appears to want from us is honesty and humility (and they are finally the same thing). If God is holding out for human perfection, God is going to have a long wait. There is no other way to…

One of the things that block us from gaining freedom from fear is that most fearful people don’t think of themselves as afraid. Unless their fears are focused on something external most people in bondage to fear fail to recognize…