Widening the Door
Does the heart have a narrow door? Will it allow in just one more of every beast and flower and bird and every song it…
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Living Life in a Straight Line
Life itself – and Scripture too – is always three steps forward and two steps backward. It gets the point and then loses it or…
Reading Contemplatively
Whatever truth you have chosen, read only a small portion of it, endeavouring to taste and digest it, to extract the essence and substance thereof,…
A Genuine Contrition
Those who tread these paths should be informed of a matter respecting their confession in which they are apt to err. When they begin to…
Facing Our Hurt and Grief
The process of transforming the heart can be difficult because as we open it, we inevitably encounter our own pain and become more aware of…
Questions Without Answers
As a physician, I was trained to deal with uncertainty as aggressively as I dealt with disease itself. The unknown was the enemy. Within this…
Open
One of the main tools for entering into the vivid immediacy of quiet mind is “not knowing.” Ordinarily, our minds are filled with all kinds…
The Mosaic That Shows Us the Face of God
A mosaic consists of thousands of little stones. Some are blue, some are green, some are yellow, some are gold. When we bring our faces…
Right Under Our Noses
One of the ego’s main defenses against doing so (experiencing our Essence) is the belief that spirituality is something rarefied, impractical, and very far away.…
A Hidden Resurrection
The resurrection of Jesus was a hidden event. Jesus didn’t rise from the grave to baffle his opponents, to make a victory statement, or to…