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A brother at Scetis committed a fault.  A council was called to which Abba Moses was invited, but he refused to go to it. Then the priest sent someone to say to him, ‘Come, for everyone is waiting.  So he…

“If it’s God’s Spirit blowing, someone ends up having feathers ruffled in an unforeseen way.”  Sue Monk Kidd.  

Belden Lane, in his book The Solace of Fierce Landscapes, helps us see the contemplative motivation for true social actioion: ” As a Trappist monk writing his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, from a Kentucky monastery in 1947, Merton came…

In the SoulStream community dialogue around the terrible accident suffered by Steve Imbach, the Director of SoulStream, one of the partners said the following.  I think it is important for all who want to grow in the contemplative way.  …

Humour is sometimes the best way to get a truth under the skin.  Here are two quick quotes that someone sent me today.  I think they are both funny and poignant…. “There will be no Homeland Security until we realize…

Someone sent me this poem, a bit tongue in cheek, but also with her desire as she came for spiritual direction. I find it a very compelling poem.  It touches so much of how we posture ourselves and the tenacity…

Spiritual Direction training emphasizes the importance of deep listening.  Here is a beautiful short quote that says it so well. “Cultivate the art of deep listening in which you lean toward the world in love.  All things in the universe…

Brent Unrau is in our spiritual direction program.  He is always on the loose, ready to come up with amazing images for just about anything!  He sent me this quote entitled  Advent Stanzas and I asked him to introduce it…