Tag Archives | Contemplation

Concerning Stillness, Songs, and Soul Friends

By in Spirituality

A reader writes: Carl, when you are sufficiently silent with the “waters stilled” how do you experience revelation. I suppose a better question would be what is your experience “there” like? Does God float into view … or does God whisper … ?? Or do you find a path to look inwardly in order to [...]

Read full story · Comments { 3 } · March 26, 2013

Answering the Contemplative Call ebooks now available

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I’m happy to announce that three different ebook versions of Answering the Contemplative Call are now available. Pick your preferred version: Kindle Version Nook Version iBooks Version And of course, if you’d rather have the old fashioned paper-&-ink version: Buy it at Amazon But it at Barnes & Noble But it at an Independent Bookstore (Online or Near [...]

Read full story · Comments { 6 } · February 14, 2013

Farewell to the Merton Institute

By in Announcements, Contemplation

I am sad to learn that the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living will be ceasing its operations at the end of this year. You can read their announcement here. The Merton institute is an independent non-profit organization with a mission “to awaken interest in contemplative living through the works of Thomas Merton and others, thereby [...]

Read full story · Comments { 13 } · November 18, 2012

Richard of St. Victor on Contemplation

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The more I read Richard of St. Victor, the more I love him. Here are a few jewels from the fifteenth chapter of Book IV of The Mystical Ark: See to it that the very time He begins to knock at the door is not the first time that you begin to want to throw [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · October 30, 2012

Vive la Résistance!

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My latest column has been published on Patheos: A Contemplative Revolution. It’s building off of a comment I made at the Wild Goose Festival: that contemplation is like the French Resistance during World War II. That, in turn, is an homage to the French origins on the Cistercian order: but it also speaks to the [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · July 11, 2012

Patheos & the Wild Goose

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Today Fran and Rhiannon and I are driving up to North Carolina for the second annual Wild Goose Festival. Will we see you there? We’ll be there all day Friday and Saturday and at least part of the day Sunday. I’ll be speaking on Celtic Spirituality Saturday evening, and on “Contemplation as a Subversive Act” [...]

Read full story · Comments { 2 } · June 21, 2012

Coming back from the desert

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No longer are such centres of solitude and critical reflection located only in the remote regions. The last decade has seen the growth of urban contemplatives, communities of Christian women and men who seek to live lives of prayer and silence within the urban scene. It was a movement predicted over twenty-five years ago by [...]

Read full story · Comments { 11 } · June 15, 2012
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