You Are a Little World – Mar. 20, 2020
“By my bedside is a reproduction of a scroll by a Zen monk of the seventeenth century, a great calligrapher named Tetsugyu. The translation of the characters is “Self revealed: all things in heaven and earth exist in oneself.” The discovery that “all things are there” within the human heart is one of the great […]
A Real Heart – Mar. 19, 2020
On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’” Now he said this […]
Transformative Love – Mar. 12, 2020
“The most daring gamble of Jesus’ trajectory of pure love may just be to show us that self-emptying is not the means to something else; the act is itself the full expression of its meaning and instantly brings into being “a new creation”: the integral wholeness of Love manifested in the particularity of a human […]
Living from the Spiritual Heart
“I consent to the Divine Presence and action within.” With these words on our heart, a group of us moved through a weekend of silent retreat, punctuated by intentional sitting and walking meditation together. All of us in some manner, though expressed differently, came desiring to open and deepen in our life in the Spirit. […]