This came in today’s mail from the Merton Institute and there is a profound truth here. All we are with all our noise, war mongering, power struggles, ego drives are illusion.
Those who love their own noise are impatient of everything else. They constantly defile the silence of the forests and the mountains [...]
Posts Tagged ‘contemplation’
Illusion
Posted in Thomas Merton, mindfulness, monastic, mystic, prayer, tagged contemplation, contemplative, Thomas Merton, Trappist on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
As they are
Posted in gratitude, mindfulness, tagged contemplation, death, George Bernard Shaw, Talmud, vision on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
This week has been a week of seeing in a new way. Since Fr. Lou’s homily on Sunday I’ve been looking at how and what I look at and seeing it a new or nuanced way. This has been a week of sadness too as one of the members of our Secular Franciscan Fraternity passed [...]
Hosea
Posted in mindfulness, mystic, prayer, tagged contemplation, Lent, Peace, truth on February 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I will lead you into the desert, and there I will speak to your heart. Hosea 2:14
Campaign 2008 and the news media in general have driven me into the desert. I’m really blessed because the onslaught of media both print, internet and televised has driven me to silence and contemplation. It’s been a gradual thing. [...]
I’m going to listen
Posted in Christian, Thomas Merton, gratitude, mindfulness, mystic, nature, tagged Ash Wednesday, contemplation, Lent, Merton, rain on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What is Lent? Today I got up at 5:30 am and headed for the gym. It was raining hard. As I ran I could hear the rain beating on the roof of the gymnasium and I was reminded of Thomas Merton who said,
It will talk as long as it wants, this rain. As long as [...]
His agent
Posted in mindfulness, mystic, tagged , Basil King, contemplation, faith, fear, meditation on October 22, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, pondering and meditating lately. I live a life of active contemplation. Despite this or because of it I am blessed. My recent decision to apply to an MBA program has been born of this contemplation. At the same time I am given to pondering the imponderables and wondering [...]
