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Basically Good
The World Community for Christian Meditation has a wonderful teacher in Laurence Freeman, the Benedictine monk who succeeded John Main as director of the community. I have learned more from him about the nature of the Christian life than any other … Continue reading
Beginnings and Endings (revised)
(A revision of a piece I posted in September 2017, but which seems very appropriate for Advent) In my beginning is my end… In my end is my beginning (East Coker I:1, V:36). What we call the beginning is often … Continue reading
Uncertainty
Uncertainty is one of the biggest problems we face in this Pandemic. Psychologists tell us to counter the uncertainty of things we cannot control by controlling the things we can. There is practical truth here. And the Serenity Prayer helps … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Mysticism, Spirituality
Tagged Covid-19, mystics, Uncertainty, Unknowing
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Your Spiritual Journey: A Straight Line or a Series of Circles?
Do you feel like you are taking steps towards a well-defined goal or do you feel like you are going in circles? From a mystical point of view the latter may be the more likely course. Linear and circular images … Continue reading
Endings and Beginnings
In my beginning is my end… In my end is my beginning (East Coker I:1, V:36). What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Mysticism, Spirituality
Tagged Dry Salvages, endings and beginnings, Little Gidding, T. S. Eliot
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The Silent Outcry
Encounters with silence deepen our spiritual receptivity. A striking recent encounter with silence was on the television show, Dancing with the Stars, when Nyle DiMarco, the first deaf male contestant, danced a section of his routine in sync with a group … Continue reading
A Secular Annunciation: “Something’s Comin” from West Side Story
While I was gazing at a reproduction of the gorgeous fresco The Annunciation by Fra Angelico, I started to sing a song from my favorite musical West Side Story. The unconscious has a wonderful way of making associations. The more … Continue reading
Seeing God Face to Face (continued)
On reflecting on my previous blog Seeing God Face to Face, I realized that there was a dimension missing, the intimate experience of meeting God’s face within ourselves. Meditation is teaching me to approach the indwelling Spirit of God with … Continue reading
Posted in Contemplation, Meditation, Mysticism, Spirituality
Tagged John Main, Maranatha, meditation as waiting, Meister Eckhart, Walter Bruggeman
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Seeing God Face to Face
One meaning of contemplation is to gaze upon God, so it is natural for the contemplative to want to see God’s face. At the same time the prospect of what we do not know is scary. This ambivalence is reflected … Continue reading
Returning To Childhood
A month ago I was at Stratford City railway station, part of the new city under construction at the 2012 Olympic site in London, and I saw a sign to Southend-on-Sea. A sudden urge arose within me to buy rover … Continue reading
The Still Point 