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Once we have given up our desire to be fully fulfilled, we can offer emptiness to others. Once we have become poor, we can be a good host. It is indeed the paradox of hospitality that poverty makes a good…

Yes, Lord, I have to die – with you, through you, and in you – and thus become ready to recognize you when you appear to me in your resurrection.  There is so much in me that needs to die:…

What’s happening in prayer is that you’re presenting yourself for the ultimate gaze, the ultimate mirroring, the gaze of God. Little by little you become more naked before that perfectly accepting gaze. It’s like lovemaking. You slowly disrobe and become…

There is a way of living life, a mode of being religious that causes destruction wherever it appears.  It is the misinterpretation of the concept of holiness.  It was certainly an issue in Jesus’ day.  The variety of the ‘Judaisms’…

It was like church to me. I entered it on soft foot, Breath held like a cap in the hand. It was quiet. What God was there made himself felt, Not listened to, in clean colours That brought a moistening…

The doorway into the silent land is a wound. Silence lays bare this wound. We do not journey far along the spiritual path before we get some sense of the wound of the human condition, and this is precisely why…

Preserve a loving attentiveness to God with no desire to feel or understand any particular thing concerning God.  – St John of the Cross, St. Maxims on Love, 9, in The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross  .…

Gracious Spirit, who has given me eyes to see the light that fills my room, give me the inward vision to see you in my lived experience. Gracious Spirit, who has made me to feel the wind upon my limbs,…