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Reflections on Openness, Contemplation, and Love
Today’s post is by Tom Adams I was eager to attend the Gerald May Seminar on the Compassion of the Mystics with Bernard McGinn. Since embracing the practice of centering prayer a couple of years ago, my interest in love and how love grows has been front and center. I figured compassion and love were…
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The quieter you become
The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Ram Dass
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Compassionate toward yourself
Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world. ~Lao Tzu
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Thomas Keating and Centering Prayer
Today’s post is by Mary van Balen I’m not sure when I began reading books by Thomas Merton. Probably late high school or early college. I’m also not sure how I discovered them. Though I was naturally drawn to contemplative prayer, the word was unfamiliar to me until Merton’s writings provided it. “Contemplative” was not…
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What I choose.
I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become. ~Carl Jung