This week’s quotes are from Gerald G. May (1940-2005), who was a senior fellow in contemplative theology and psychology at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation. ”Growth in love” is at the heart of his understanding of spiritual formation, with a sense of the centrality and mystery of intimate divine love and guidance.
“Love is the pervading passion of all things that draws diversity into oneness, that knows and pleads for union, that aches for goodness and beauty, that suffers loss and destruction. Love is the Power that births and grieves, the laughter that fills the heavens, the tears that water the earth. Love is the energy that fuels, fills, and embraces everything everywhere. And there is no end to it, ever.”
– Gerald G. May, Wisdom of Wilderness
