“I was speaking [with Thomas Keating] on this topic of unity, what a prayer of Christian unity and unity practice might be, and how it would relate to Centering Prayer. It was a lively topic for [Thomas]. And he said, “Well, it’s a very subtle thing. If you share it with people, it’s not easily […]
“The Christmas-Epiphany Mystery is the celebration of the transmission of divine light. The liturgical season begins with Advent, a period of intense preparation to understand and accept the three comings of Christ. The first is his historical coming in human weakness and the manifestation of his divinity to the world; the second is his spiritual coming in our inmost being; the […]
The spiral galaxy NGC 3285B, a member of the Hydra I cluster of galaxies. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz) “We are dealing with the God whom we can know in some degree through creation, through grace, and through sound teaching. That knowledge always implies that we must develop practices that help human nature to heal its wounds, such as practices that are proposed by almost every religious tradition. This evolutionary healing process teaches, in effect, that creation was […]
“Prayer and activity are not enemies. We ascend the ladder of consciousness beyond rational consciousness to intuitive and unitive levels, and then, when they become stabilized, action and contemplation become the same thing because God is present in everything. You see God in everything, and you see God intentionally working with circumstances outside of you […]
February 21, 2018 Long conversation with TK. He is still in pain, but it is less constant than before. All the medications for pain make him very sick. He knows his vocation now is to suffer identified with the Passion of Christ and he is happy (his word) to live that vocation. His voice was strong. […]
Odilon Redon, Decorative Panel, 1902 “In the no-self situation, there is only the doing what has to be done without sefl-reflection. This is non-duality … This is heaven on earth. At the same time, it is extremely simple and ordinary. … It consists of leading ordinary life from this extraordinary perspective of allowing God to […]
image courtesy of Ron Barnett “Our ordinary preoccupations involve unconscious value systems. Some thoughts are attractive to us because we have an attachment to them springing from the emotional programming of early childhood. When such thoughts go by, all our lights start flashing because of our heavy emotional investment in the values that they stimulate […]
Centering Prayer Introductory Retreat At The New Kylemore Abbey August 15 – 17, 2025 In 1984, a Trappist Monk, Fr. Thomas Keating OCSO, founded Contemplative Outreach, an organization dedicated to sharing the fruits of contemplative prayer. Centering Prayer is a method of prayer that strives […]
heart cells; stock.adobe.com “What to do with this revelation of a Reality that is beyond reality? A Reality that is beyond being and nonbeing. A Reality that just is, and which has chosen to invite us to IS too. By just being, by just having been born, here we are automatically in relationship to That Which Is. […]
Christina Bernazzani, know thyself “The absolutely certain help you can give to someone else is to work on yourself — that is, by loving more, becoming more humble, by trusting more. You do not usually have to do anythjing else, and that will save you a lot of useless trouble. Yes, God will inspire you […]