Far from being a withdrawal from the world, both activity in the world and the infused encounter with God are each of them two aspects of...

A person who is killed by one enemy is just as dead as a person who is killed by an entire army. - Thomas Merton There are many brilliant...

Enculturated delusions. Childhood attachments. These bind people to their narcissism and create vain hopes. These may seem to be very...

When it comes to physical emptiness it is very easy to convince yourself that the poverty of the poor is somehow God's will for them when...

when people speak of sacrifice today they mean that they have personally decided to do a good deed that costs them something so that it’s...

To experience the contemplative encounter with God is incredibly simple and overwhelmingly joyful. And yet people spend their whole...

The boy Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. The word of Yahweh rare in those days - no widespread revealing. It came to pass at that...

The so-called revolutions put forth by people have never changed anything. Power passes from one enclave to another. But when the smoke...

Here is the call of God to all who claim to follow. Embrace poverty. Take the seat at the far end of that table. Live among the...

The point of Christianity for the vast majority of Christians is to simply account for the unknown, tag it theologically, and file it...

For enculturated western people the present is always somewhere in the future. Novelty perpetually corrupts that which is right in front...

Practically no one knows what to make of a genuine contemplative life. That is not to say that in order to be considered contemplative...

The overwhelming number of people who latch on to religion do so as if it is something that they can acquire, much like anything else...

Humility consists in having removed all of the masks that we use to make ourselves acceptable to others and simply being who we actually...

It is self-evident that no one who indulges their desires is a free person. In doing so they have renounced their freedom and become a...

In order to experience the centring solitude that is the byproduct of unmasking our false self it is imperative to make a conscious...

Solitude that is helpful to a contemplative can be abused in religion. There are people who dedicate themselves to God whose lives are...