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 […]
“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 […]