Toward Wholeness – Aug. 6, 2021
“To be grateful that we are involves gratitude for what has made us as we are. Thus, gratitude and forgiveness are both essential to wholeness.” –Sam Keen, in Our Many Selves by Elizabeth O’Connor, p. 139
Say Nothing Negative – Aug. 5, 2021
“An added discipline for this week might be to say nothing negative about anyone else or about yourself. This will give you more energy for inner work on the subject [self-observation]. If you find it a difficult discipline to keep, do not be discouraged. A discipline is to help us learn, and there is often […]
Search for God – Aug. 4, 2021
“Though by and large the Church has not known how integral the search for self is to the search for God, her saints have always preached that the two are inextricably bound together. Brother Lawrence is reported to have said, “When we enter upon the spiritual life, we should consider and examine to the bottom […]
Many Selves – Aug. 3, 2021
“If I respect the plurality in myself, and no longer see my jealous self as the whole of me, then I have gained the distance I need to observe it, listen to it, and let it acquaint me with a piece of my own lost history. In this way I come into possession of more […]
