“The divine action in daily life and prayer is working with incredible wisdom. It provides us with the same situations over and over again, until we are completely detached all the way down to the soles of our feet. We can postpone this process by disregarding it, but the vocation we have and which we […]
Kreg Yingst @psalmprayers Incarnatio continua The Incarnation continues in you, as you. We wish you a blessed Christmas season living the Light into this world. “God is manifesting in each moment as the human consciousness in each of us. As the Canadian Jesuit Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984) said, ‘We are the icons of God.’ God experiences Godself in […]
“We often project onto others what we most dislike in ourselves. This is why to bring our prayer life into confrontation with the reality of daily life, with its unexpected happenings and ups and downs, is a very important part of the purification and transformative process, and has been called ‘the discipline of the Holy Spirit’.” Thomas Keating Heartfulness: […]
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) […]