“Contemplation is essential for understanding the deeper meaning of scripture. Scripture should be read on a regular basis as a form of lectio divina with great dependence on the Spirit, who breathes through the sacred text. “To give to scripture an absolute authority and the final moral voice in everything is a form of idolatry. […]
“Forgiveness is central to the Christian religion. It was Jesus’ chief concern on the night of his resurrection when he revealed himself to the Apostles gathered together behind locked doors, breathed on them, and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them. Whose sins you retain are retained.’ (John 20:22) … We too must practice forgiveness to […]
X Class Solar Flare Sends ‘Shockwaves’ on The Sun; image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, Maryland, USA “The Universe seems to be a giant paradigm of the spiritual journey. …. the evolutionary process is going on at every level of existence and must affect us in some way that we do not […]
“I was speaking [with Thomas Keating] on this topic of unity, what a prayer of Christian unity and unity practice might be, and how it would relate to Centering Prayer. It was a lively topic for [Thomas]. And he said, “Well, it’s a very subtle thing. If you share it with people, it’s not easily […]
“The Christmas-Epiphany Mystery is the celebration of the transmission of divine light. The liturgical season begins with Advent, a period of intense preparation to understand and accept the three comings of Christ. The first is his historical coming in human weakness and the manifestation of his divinity to the world; the second is his spiritual coming in our inmost being; the […]
The spiral galaxy NGC 3285B, a member of the Hydra I cluster of galaxies. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz) “We are dealing with the God whom we can know in some degree through creation, through grace, and through sound teaching. That knowledge always implies that we must develop practices that help human nature to heal its wounds, such as practices that are proposed by almost every religious tradition. This evolutionary healing process teaches, in effect, that creation was […]
“Prayer and activity are not enemies. We ascend the ladder of consciousness beyond rational consciousness to intuitive and unitive levels, and then, when they become stabilized, action and contemplation become the same thing because God is present in everything. You see God in everything, and you see God intentionally working with circumstances outside of you […]
February 21, 2018 Long conversation with TK. He is still in pain, but it is less constant than before. All the medications for pain make him very sick. He knows his vocation now is to suffer identified with the Passion of Christ and he is happy (his word) to live that vocation. His voice was strong. […]
Odilon Redon, Decorative Panel, 1902 “In the no-self situation, there is only the doing what has to be done without sefl-reflection. This is non-duality … This is heaven on earth. At the same time, it is extremely simple and ordinary. … It consists of leading ordinary life from this extraordinary perspective of allowing God to […]
image courtesy of Ron Barnett “Our ordinary preoccupations involve unconscious value systems. Some thoughts are attractive to us because we have an attachment to them springing from the emotional programming of early childhood. When such thoughts go by, all our lights start flashing because of our heavy emotional investment in the values that they stimulate […]