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Thomas Merton on what really IS
Contemplation is the sudden intuitive penetration of what really IS. It is the unexpected leap of the spirit of man into the existential luminosity of Reality Itself, not merely by the metaphysical intuition of being, but by the transcendent fulfillment…
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Desire for "I know not what"
When I have the experience of desiring “I know not what,” I am experiencing God creating me now in all the particulars of my present existence. While immersed in the experience I do not worry about my past failures and…
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A Prayer to Avoid Entitlement
The Center for Action and Contemplation sent out this note in preparation for Lent. It is so good that it seemed appropriate to copy it here. A Prayer to Avoid Entitlement by Richard Rohr The Jewish people have a beautiful…
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The Silent Cry
” Mystics have very rarely separated themselves from existing historical religions; without externally changing a single letter, they understood the meaning of these religions more deeply. They did not deny revelation but appropriated it differently. Second, conflict was part and…
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A New Year's gift from David Benner
Happy New Year to All of you! Here is a quote that sums up what seems to be the best New Year’s resolution of all — if we must have one! It is the call to WAKE UP! May you…
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Steve Bell
Beautiful, anguished, hopeful words from Steve Bell’s new album. From the title track. Keening For The Dawn On and on the night goes on Brooding dark before the dawn We are waiting Worried lips rehearse our creeds Bellies swollen with…
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Sr. Margaret Funk, OSB
GIVEN RECENT EVENTS IN THE NEWS, IT IS CLEAR THAT WE DESPERATELY NEED LISTENING HEARTS – OPEN TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO GOD! We have just completed the first intensive of Living from the Heart here in the Lower Mainland. …