I’m in the process of waking up. It’s a journey and not a destination. I’ll never be fully awake but I hope that I continue to awaken to the reality of the world that has been created for all of us. This isn’t the Madison Avenue marketing world or the world as described on the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Spirituality’
Waking up
Posted in Spiritual, mindfulness, mystic, prayer, tagged Anthony de Mello, contemplative, Spirituality on July 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What is a contemplative?
Posted in Benedictine, Spiritual, mindfulness, monastic, mystic, prayer, tagged contemplative, Spirituality, mystic on April 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last Saturday my son asked my wife and I if we could define mysticism. I did my best but it’s like trying to define what strawberries taste like to someone who’s never tasted one. This morning I decided to give one of my extra books to our school library but before I did, I looked [...]
Wholeness
Posted in Benedictine, Catholic, Spiritual, mindfulness, monastic, tagged contemplative, Spirituality, chittister on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Religion is about ritual, about morals, about systems of thought, all of them good, but all of them incomplete. Spirituality is about coming to consciousness of the sacred. It is in that consciousness that perspective comes, that peace comes. It is in that consciousness that a person comes to wholeness. –p.16, Illuminated Life–Joan Chittister, OSB
Angels in our midst
Posted in Christianity, Mt. Irenaeus, mindfulness, mystic, tagged contemplative, death, Franciscan, Incarnation, mystic, Spirituality on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
I was on Route 1 nearing the turn for Mt. Irenaeus when suddenly I spotted three deer entering the roadway about a tenth mile ahead. One looked normal and the other two looked different. From a distance they almost looked like fawns, but then as I got closer I realized that two of the deer [...]
Third Jesus
Posted in Ahimsa, Deepak Chopra, Spiritual, tagged Deepak Chopra, Jesus, Spirituality on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
A couple of days ago I spied a title at Changing Hands bookstore that invited me to pick it up. On the bookshelf was a book written by Deepak Chopra. It’s title, “The Third Jesus,” really captivated me. I read a few paragraphs and put it down. Yesterday, while visiting the Franciscan Renewal Center in [...]
Listen to the rain
Posted in Christianity, Peace, Thomas Merton, Trappist, mindfulness, monastic, mystic, prayer, tagged contemplative, mystic, Philosophy, Spirituality, Thomas Merton on October 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A couple of nights ago I woke up to the sound of rain and I thought of Thomas Merton. Whenever it rains I think of Merton.
I came up here [to his hermitage] from the monastery last night, sloshing through the cornfield, said Vespers, and put some oatmeal on the Coleman stove for supper. It boiled [...]
Happy Birthday Jelaluddin Rumi
Posted in Peace, Rumi, gratitude, tagged contemplative, Gratefulness, Philosophy, Rumi, Spirituality on September 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Today while visiting Brother David’s website that this is the birthday of Jelaluddin Rumi. Rumi was a mystic and I first learned of him a few years ago watching Dr. Wayne Dyer on Public Television.
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as [...]
Mathetes tag
Posted in Christian, Christianity, Mt. Irenaeus, Peace, mindfulness, tagged , contemplative, Franciscan, mathetes award, Philosophy, spiritual direction, Spirituality on September 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Recently Jeff tagged me for a Mathetes award. I’m honored to be so highly regarded by a fellow blogger. That tagging carries with it some responsibility to tag others too.
