What You Desire – Feb. 24, 2023
“Because it is not what you are nor what you have been that God looks at with his merciful eyes, but what you desire to be.” -The Cloud of Unknowing, trans. James Walsh, Ch. 75, p. 265
The Soul Playing Hide and Seek – Feb. 6, 2023
“We may feel some aspects of our self to be difficult, perhaps those associated with our past. Most often we find these hiding or in exile. We may feel proud of other aspects of ourselves, perhaps those associated with where we want to go. These may reveal themselves clearly, or they may be hidden as […]
Being Sensitive – Mar. 28, 2022
“The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.” ―Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity, p. 95
Run Toward Our Transgressions – Sep. 30, 2021
“However small or large, our immediate instinct is to run away from our transgression. Or to hide it. Or to lie about what we did so that nobody will find out about it. And in doing that, we’re in bondage to the thing that we’ve done. We let it dictate our next move, and the […]
