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Does God = Consciousness?

By in Contemplation

A reader writes… Carl, I am a theoretical physicist by training and have struggled with the idea of supernatural concepts like God. Even so, contemplation has increased my sense of God being part of me, which I like very much. So here is my question: Do you think it is too radical to say God [...]

Read full story · Comments are closed · April 12, 2013

Quote for the Day

By in Christian mysticism, Mysticism

It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes: yet, with all that, God Himself gloried in becoming a member of the human race. … As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · November 10, 2011

Quote for the Day

By in Spirituality

Nothing in the universe resembles God more than silence. — Meister Eckhart, as quoted by John O’Donohue in Four Elements: Reflections on Nature

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · October 11, 2011

Simplicity and Prayer

By in Christian mysticism, Contemplation, Mysticism, Spirituality

In the simple promises for the junior lay associates (Lay Cistercians) of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, we promise, among other things, to live “life in simplicity and prayer.” I love that juxtaposition. Prayer and simplicity go together so beautifully, it seems to me, that one of the best ways to cultivate in our [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · August 18, 2011

Simplicity, Silence, Stillness, Solitude

By in Spirituality

As I seek to move deeper into the contemplative life, I try to keep in mind the gifts of simplicity, silence, and solitude. Simplicity, in choosing to liberate my life from the tyranny of too much “stuff,” of too many commitments of my time and energy, of too many causes to which I can devote [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · June 1, 2011

Everything Has Being By the Love of God

By in Spirituality

In this same time our Lord showed me a spiritual sight of His homely loving. I saw that He is to us everything that is good and comfortable for us: He is our clothing that for love wraps us, clasps us, and all encloses us for tender love, that He may never leave us; being [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · May 30, 2011

Quote for the Day

By in Christianity, Mysticism, Mystics

So just let God act, and be at peace. As far as you are in God, you are in peace; and as far as you are outside God, you are outside peace. Lack of peace comes from created things and not from God. Nor is there anything to fear in God, and nothing in him [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · May 12, 2011
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