Centering Down – July 19, 2021
How good it is to center down!To sit quietly and see one’s self pass by!The streets of our minds seethe with endless traffic;Our spirits resound with clashing, with noisy silences,While something deep within hungers and thirsts for the still moment and the resting lull. …As we listen, floating up through all of the jangling echoes […]
Unclothe Your Thoughts – Nov. 6, 2019
“Unclothe your awareness of analytical thoughts. Keep it empty. Don’t cogitate on yourself or on others whom you know. Let them go… You no longer need to feed your mind by meditating on who you are and who God is. Grace will help you focus on holding yourself steady in the deep center of your […]
Keeping Faith – Dec. 14, 2018
“The ear of Faith is, I suggest, the ear of one who keeps faith with the agitation and the peace, and who, through the sacrament of his body, experiences their union. The ear of Faith is, to my hearing, neither deaf nor slavish. It does not falsify, nor does it reduce the tidings to explanation. […]
Direct Experience – Dec. 13, 2018
“Perhaps it is because in handcraft one works more immediately with material and handling, that one gets to know one’s material in something like an intuitive way. One may develop a capacity for experiencing other phenomena in this way: in immediacy, listening to something that is not audible but that nevertheless one hears, responding to […]
