Solitude – Feb. 16, 2022
“Solitude is not a practice just for ourselves but a practice to cultivate within each of us a greater capacity for living in communion with the world. In solitude we are able to listen more intimately for the whispers of the divine alive in each moment.” –Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul’s Slow Ripening, p. 107
Challenging Our Illusions – Feb. 3, 2022
“To the extent that a community has a continuing life together we are going to be challenged at the point of our illusions about the kind of people we are. This does not mean that we intentionally seek to break the images of others. The task is always to change ourselves—to deal with that in […]
Beliefs – Jan. 20, 2022
“This is what matters, how what you believe affects your life and the lives of others… Beliefs can be a powerful force in a person’s life once they are embraced. They can determine life or death. This is what makes beliefs both important and at the same time dangerous. They have the power to influence […]
Losing Touch – Oct. 20, 2020
“As soon as we succumb to someone else’s definition of who we are, we lose our sense of true self and of our right relation to the world. It makes no difference whether those projections make us the hero or the goat: when we allow others to name us, we lose touch with our own […]
