Spirituality
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Core Word #7: Awareness
Anthony de Mello wrote a potent little book titled Awareness. Do not read this book. If you read this book, you will be picked up, shaken out, and dropped several feet from where you started. You will most certainly be… Continue reading
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Burn Hot
"What is to give light, must endure burning," wrote Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl. Greatly humbled by the context of this quote, I none-the-less suggest that it does fit, here and now, for many of us. When we are called to… Continue reading
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Core Word #3: Expansion
As I've grown spiritually (and I do think of it as growth, though maybe it's change, or evolution, or devolution–in any case, because it gets better and better, I experience it as growth), it feels, even when I'm letting go… Continue reading
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Discover Your Silence
Discover your silence. Recover God. Text and image © 2010 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Unselfing
If it unselfs you,treasure it,cultivate it. If it muscles through your grim, monotonous monitoringof what others think of youor whether or not you measure up,make a note. If it picks you up,shakes you out,and drops you a few feet away… Continue reading
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On Silent Retreat
"There is nothing in the world," says Meister Eckhart, "that resembles God quite like silence." All I hear, at this moment, is the sound of my pen tip rolling across the paper. It's that quiet. I sit up in the… Continue reading
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Amma
Breathe in. "Abba." Breathe out. "Abba." One of the ways I pray is to silently repeat words or phrases, often matched to my breathing (if sitting) or my steps (if walking). This is nothing unique, but an ancient way of… Continue reading
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Write You Own Blog! (Part 3)
It's my final morning staying with the Sisters of Loretto, reading, writing, breathing, meditating, being. Since I'm away, this blog's all yours. I thought you might like to respond to this quote, from Fr. James Clark: "The best place to… Continue reading
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So What Is Good?
One morning, in the middle of many weeks of struggling with work issues, self-doubts and an uncertain job future, I asked myself, "Okay, given all that and how unpleasant it is, what is good right now?" This was the answer:… Continue reading
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If Only…
If I could just hold all insights in concsciousness. If all those "aha" moments–when vision becomes clear and a few more pieces fall into place and I stand breathless on the brink of the divine–would stay with me. If only…… Continue reading