Living Spiritually Aware – Mar. 11, 2020
“The role of meditation in service of the gospel… creates a bridge between the two levels of awareness [ordinary and spiritual] within us, offering a consistent and reliable way of practicing the passage from small self to greater Self. When, during the time of meditation, angry or frightened or self-justifying thoughts arise, we use whatever […]
Our True Identity – Mar. 10, 2020
“Like most the great spiritual masters of our universe, Jesus taught from the conviction that we human beings are victim of a tragic case of mistaken identity. The person I normally take myself to be—that busy, anxious little “I” so preoccupied with its goals, fears, desires, and issues—is never even remotely the whole of who […]
The Bright Field – Feb. 27, 2020
… Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering afteran imagined past. It is the turningaside like Moses to the miracleof the lit bush, to a brightnessthat seemed as transitory as your youthonce, but is the eternity that awaits you. –R.S. Thomas, excerpt from “The Bright Field“
The Source – Feb. 21, 2020
“We open our awareness to the Ultimate Mystery whom we know by faith is within us, closer than breathing, closer than choosing, closer than consciousness itself. The Ultimate Mystery is the ground in which our being is rooted, the source from whom our life emerges at every moment.” –Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart