Vassily Kandisky. Autumn in Murnau. Private collection. Loving God, I realize now that I have to be open to everything if I want to change and grow more deeply into the love and knowledge of You who are everything and […]
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Stillness
Francisco de Zurbarán. Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose. Norton Simon Museum. Nothing is so one with the nature of God as stillness. To live a spiritual life is to live in the presence of God—to be still […]
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Good, Better, Best
Nothing on our spiritual journey is ever final; it is an ongoing process moving us deeper and deeper. It is a continuous change and movement from what is good (that place where most of us live, desiring to love and […]
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Contemplative Prayer
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was an American Trappist, scholar of comparative religion, priest, poet, mystic and author of more than seventy books, including The Seven Story Mountain, that aroused an enormous new interest in contemplative prayer . Contemplation is essentially a […]
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