The Contemplative Life – Mar. 3, 2022
“The contemplative life is more than Christian prayers or rituals or sermons. It is all of those things but more. It is about the experience of God on the individual level. It is the fullness of the Tradition come to life again in us as the personal sensibility of what it is to realize that […]
Christ Consciousness – Mar. 13, 2020
“Contemplative practice… is fundamentally about a change in consciousness that enables the practitioner to see and participate in the very nature of Christ. It is a bold way of saying “yes” to the profound invitation of Ephesians 3:18-19… that rooted and grounded in love [you] may come to grasp how wide and long and high […]
the capacity to look – Dec. 19, 2019
“The artist is always the contemplative—the one who sees what is there. The uninhibited three-year-old, stopping with enthralled gaze to watch an insect, or some activity in the street, is also a contemplative. If we could recover that lost capacity to look, which we all once had, we might be able to penetrate to the […]
Bright Darkness – Nov. 5, 2019
“Contemplative prayer is the cloud of unknowing, the hidden love-longing offered by a pure spirit. It’s the Ark of the Covenant. It’s the mystical theology of Dionysius, the wisdom and treasure of his ‘bright darkness’ and ‘unknown knowing.’ It takes you into silence, far from thoughts and words. In it, you learn how to reject […]
