worldtoday.
It isthe world
with no values other
than monetary values,
the world that recognizes
no limits and thus
can have no fulfillment.
It isthe world that is
transgressing planetary
boundaries and sending
us headlong to a catastrophe.
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Seek the Lord
seek His presencecontinually.(1 Chronicles 16: 11 of The Holy bible)This is not merelya suggestion.He designed usto live with Him.That’s wherewe find health,wholeness,and fulfillment.
Welcome to the real world of practice.
There is no magic way to vanquish it.When boredom occurs, pay attention:how does it feel to be bored?Where does it reside in your body?What thoughts are associated with it?Make boredom your object of meditation.
We ought to be prepared
so that, though it bedark, there is somethingso blessed, so exceptional,pouring its comfortand sustenance on oursouls, that, after all,the dark and dreary hourbecomes a more reallyfestive time to the heart,because of the virtuesof the truth madeknown, , which wasso happy and exhilarating.‘ And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory…
The dynamic of emptying
accurately defines the transformationof the Christian consciousness in Christ.It is a kenotic transformation,an emptying of all the contentsof the ego-consciousnessto become a void in whichthe light of Godor the glory of God,the full radiationof the infinite realityof His Being and Loveare manifested.
Good God,
from many grains.Wine is pressed outofmany grapes.You, Godwant lifein abundance.You are a friend of life.You want us to be happy.Change usin a waythatwe express our loveand care for everyone,especially the poor,by sharing our mealsand love with them.
The Mystic sees Reality as a living
It is the eager and outgoing activitywhose driving power is generous love.The word love as applied to the mysticsis to be understood in its deepest, fullest sense;as the ultimate expressionof the self’s most vital tendencies.Mystical love is the deep-seated desireand tendency of the soul towards its source.
in which,
the sense of the mystery
isincreasingly lost.
Thus we poke and prod
in order to solve
the mysteries before us.
And when we have largely
discovered something’s
physical properties
we think we have
exhausted its meaning.
But we have not.
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The womb of God welcomes me to a dance
I experience the intense vibrancyand the sensation of peace.The invisible energy isrunning in and through my being.My inner space explodes.(This was published by mein Micropoet under the name of my beloved motherGenova Maaawho passed away at a young age. I published for a long time underthis second name. i write to keepher memory alive as…
Whoknows about
When did thecreation happen?No one knows.Who cansurvey the creationfrom the lofty skies?Can a human being do it?None shall be able.Whoknowsanything for certain?No human being.Even then, our Egoclaims full knowledge.It is the greatestirony of the Ego.
It is faith that allows
into its own.It is the dispositionof the mind and heartthat counts.This pre-dispositionIsthe preverbal level.The preverbal level isthat of the unspokenand indefinablepreparation,the predispositionof mind and heart.
Man may try to
and control the thoughtbut nothing canprevent the childof God communingin his heart with hisheavenly Lord,for such communionremains impenetrableto the last breathof our mortal life.
In neglecting to fast
feeding the beast in us.One of the effectsof the sinful fall is aninordinate love of self.We often think toohighly of ourselves.We allow our appetitesto run astray from the truth.One of the purposesof the season of Lentis to attack thisinordinate love of self.
The mind concentrated
of interest, is undistractedby its own likes and dislikes;and performs efficientlythe work that is given it to do.In persons of feebleor diffuse intelligencehowever, this deepabsorption in the senseof Divine Realitymay easily degenerateinto monodeism.(This is a philosophical belief that posits that God exists as an uncaused First Cause ultimately responsible for the creation of the universe,…