The Doorway Into a Wound
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…
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Thinking Our Way Out of Contemplation
Preserve a loving attentiveness to God with no desire to feel or understand any particular thing concerning God. – St John of the Cross, St.…
A Prayer
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…
Prayer as Consent
If we are honest, most of us have to admit that prayer is often more of an obligation than something arising spontaneously from desire .…
Conventional Divisions Abolished By Joy
The coming of Jesus has certainly confused our experience of spirituality. Our relationship to divinity, ever since, has become much more subtle. Gone are the…
O Holy Night
O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining, It is the night of the dear Saviour’s birth. Long lay the world in sin and error…
Contemplative Responses to Our World
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…
The "Anti-authoritarian Religion"
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…
The Trivialization of Life
The trivialization of life is perhaps the strongest anti-mystical force among us. Some people are literally obsessed by the compulsion to trivialize everything. . .…
Suffering Born From Beauty
“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…