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How to Grow a Mandala

By in Art, Meditation

My wife pointed me to this video. Well worth watching — and trying out.  

Read full story · Comments { 1 } · September 28, 2012

Practical Discipline

By in Books

There was a sense of freedom in knowing that I would never run out of room to grow. There was peace in knowing the race was over. Where I was right now was just where I should be, given the amount of effort I had expended. I saw the wake behind my boat for the [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · July 19, 2012

Monday Morning Again

By in Spirituality

It’s Monday morning. For some of us, it’s the beginning of another hectic week. Others might be facing the challenge of looking for employment, or creating meaning and purpose in the face of retirement or long-term disability. Wherever your life’s journey might have taken you to reach this morning, I invite you to consider the [...]

Read full story · Comments { 1 } · February 27, 2012

Quote for the Day

By in Christian mysticism, silence

Silence is not an absence of noise (though that sort of silence helps) but a limitless interior space. Silence is our natural state. Lack of silence erodes our humanity. … Through intention we can teach our selves to default to silence; meditation is only a first and very minor step. — Maggie Ross, Writing the [...]

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

Quote for the Day

By in Meditation

The basic definition of meditation is “having a steady mind.” In meditation, when your thoughts go up, you don’t go up, and you don’t go down when your thoughts go down. Whether your thoughts are good or bad, exciting or boring, blissful or miserable, you let them be. You don’t accept some and reject others. [...]

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

What Mystics Do (and You Can, Too)

By in Christian mysticism, Christianity, Contemplation, Mysticism, Mystics, silence, Spirituality

What do mystics do? The following list can be a way to begin answering this question. I’m not suggesting that every mystic does everything on this list (for starters, this list is particularly aimed at Christian mystics), or that a person has to do all of these things to be considered a mystic. I’m trying [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · October 15, 2010

Quote for the Day

By in Contemplation, Meditation

Bede Griffiths, one of the great contemplative masters of our time, claimed that there are actually three routes to the center. You can have a near-death experience. You can fall desperately in love. Or you can begin a practice of meditation. Of the three, he said with a somewhat mischievous smile, meditation is probably the [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · October 1, 2010
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