Nicholas Roerich, Defender Cloud Archer, 1937 “The psychological experience of a separate self sense is the root of all sin [meaning ‘to miss the mark’]. … It is the anxiety, the sense of separation, loneliness, or alienation — and all the negative feelings that flow from them — that are really the inspiration of […]
image courtesy of Ron Barnett “If we refuse to think of anything except what we are doing or the person that we are with, we develop the habit of being present to the present moment. … “Attention, then, is a way of doing what we are doing. It cracks the crust of the false self […]
Georgiana Houghton, The Risen Lord, 1864 God is more like a verb …. “is-ing” all the time and inviting us to “is,” too. What that involves may take us a lifetime to understand. It is an incomprehensively beautiful vision – only the Ultimate Goodness could have thought it up. Thomas Keating God is All in All: The Evolution of […]
Georgiana Houghton, The Sheltering Wing of the Most High, 1861 “Faith suggests that we are in fact complete and never separated from God, but we just have not found it out yet. We have not awakened to the loving presence of God within us that is forever waiting to be discovered. In this perspective, the […]
“Live that prayer, let it live you … so that your deepest purpose in life is more accessible to you in every breath, in every movement, and in every ordinary failure and forgetting. I constantly forget my heart intention practice, but the grace and the beauty and the gift of it is that I can […]
“As incarnations of the Son of God, we allow God to experience what it is like to be human in each one of us.” Thomas Keating, Reflections on the Unknowable + Hail, all of you. All of you filled with grace in every cell and particle of your being. May you incarnate and […]
Contemplative Outreach Dublin Advent Reflection Day Date: Saturday 16th December Time :9.30 am – 3.00pm Venue : Avila Carmelite Centre, Bloomfield Avenue, Morehampton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 Avila have parking facilities. The centre is served by the following bus routes 39A (Blanchardstown to UCD), 46A (Phoenix Park to Dun Laoghaire) and 145 (Heuston Station to Kilmacanogue) […]
Alfred Delp, Advent of the Heart, Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings Christ was placed in the full human condition that we experience without being able to do much about it. It is an extraordinary expression of love. In other words, when you join me in descending into hell, you help release the prisoners of the […]
The Second Consent of Centering Prayer: Interior Silence ) ” … [This is a] movement beyond the ordinary realms of thinking and judging and commenting and reflecting, and if all the other thoughts dissolve there still is the thought that I have no thoughts. So, the ‘I’ thought is the last bastion of the ego […]
Do you seek the still,quiet voice of God. This workshop will help us to understand the Presence of God within each of us and our intimate relationship with that Presence. A simple meditation practice known as Centering Prayer will be introduced as a method to help us “rest in God” We will experience two […]