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Every person in this Earth
Every person in this Earth yearns to love, to be loved, to know love. Our true identity, our reason for being is to be found in this desire. ~Gerald May
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The Both-And of Our Faith
Post by Mary van Balen I looked up the word “advenio” in my old Latin dictionary and found that, depending on how it’s used, the verb can mean “to draw near” or “to arrive.” The noun, “adventus” is also translated as either “approach” or “arrival.” The season of Advent encompasses both. We wait. We celebrate…
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Come out
Come out from the circle of time and into the circle of love. ~Rumi
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Iona: A Pilgrimage in Image and Word
Photo blog by Susan Etherton 1) Everywhere you go there is a secret room. To discover it, you must knock on walls… and listen for the echo that portends the secret passage. Everywhere has a secret room. You must find your own, in a small chapel, a tiny café, a quiet park, the pew where…
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Glimpsing God in the Dark Night
Article by Margaret Benefiel (December 2017 eNews) When 20 young contemplative leaders gathered at the beautiful St. Benedict’s Monastery nestled in the mountains of Snowmass, Colorado with Tilden Edwards, Thomas Keating, Richard Rohr, and Laurence Freeman for five days in August, one of the first themes that surfaced was societal impasse. In the midst of…
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Love lifts me.
I once asked a bird, “How is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness?” She responded, “Love lifts me.” ~Hafiz