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Everybody can love
Everybody can love in the place where they are. We can all add our share of love without leaving the room. ~Helen Nearing
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Post Election Reflections from Shalem Leaders
In light of the dismay and fear many are sensing this week, we wanted to share a few brief remarks from Shalem leaders in the wake of Tuesday’s election results. Margaret Benefiel: In my wrestling with the election results, I sense we will certainly need to seek deep contemplative grounding to live faithfully through these next…
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The Stillness and the Peace of Now
The stillness and the peace of now enfold you in perfect gentleness. ~A Course in Miracles
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Deep Interconnection in this Election Season
by Patience Robbins, excerpted from a Wednesday Election Guided Prayer Session (in November eNews) “Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the Earth is our mother, this we know. The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth. This we know. All things are connected, like the blood which unites…
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Contemplative Collaboration
by Margaret Benefiel At the initiative of Thomas Keating, the founder of Contemplative Outreach, the founders of three other major Christian contemplative organizations were invited to meet with him in early October at St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado: Tilden Edwards of the Shalem Institute, Richard Rohr of the Center for Action and Contemplation, and…
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There is a child
There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch. ~Robert Brault