Understanding Doesn’t Heal
I’m a sucker for self-help books with a spiritual or cosmic thread. I love to learn and it’s been a relatively harmless addiction. My quest has been to understand my purpose and to live with the consequences of my choices. But what could Jesus possibly mean when he talks of letting go of one’s life […]
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
Transformation – Apr. 3, 2019
“Divine Union takes place when we accept ourselves and our whole personal history just as we are, in total honesty, without anxiety or self recrimination. At the moment of utter powerlessness and, to us, the failure of everything the false self wanted to achieve, God joins us in our suffering and transforms it into our […]
Response to Divine Love – Nov. 9, 2018
“Divine love is not an attitude that one puts on like a cloak. It is rather the right way to respond to reality. It is the right relationship to being, including our own being. And that relationship is primarily one of receiving… An important part of the response to divine love, once it has been […]
