But you, when you pray, go into a closet and shut the door and pray to God in secret... There is no possibility of an direct encounter...

So Eli Told Samuel,“Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, ‘Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down...

The only valid reason to live in solitude is the love of God. From this experience comes a deeper appreciation for the actual benefits...

The only thing that can properly be called God's will in the Christian life is that which is required of people to be united with one...

There are only two ways to address this problem of our false self: love or hate. Anything that refuses the pain of stripping off the...

What does it take to allow the love of God to fully consume us? How much debris keeps us separate from one another? Hasn't Christ's...

God was put to death because God did not measure up to people's expectations of God's holiness. God was not holy enough. God was not...

Look! How embracing the greeting the sun bestows on this water. To watch it rise alone is worth any thousand excursions. The entire...

The person who is not stripped and poor and naked within their own soul will unconsciously tend to do the works they do for their own...

As long as you are convinced that you have to defend yourself, you will never be at peace. As long as you continue to compare your...

How is it even possible to experience God and... seek one's own pleasure feed personal and social illusions be anxious about anything...

...that people actually believe that their lives are better off if they assert their own desires and ambitions and appetites in an effort...

it is nothing less than impossible to withdraw from illusion without long and loving attention to the magnitude of the work done not by...

Not magnanimity alone, but humility as well. Not simply in greatness, but in particularized smallnesses. It is easy to become...

...is that the self that we have constructed is the fundamental reality of life. Therefore, people use up their lives adding layer upon...

The Christian vocation is to return to our true self, laying aside all of the behaviours that we do and vaues that we hold that make us...

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. - Thomas Merton The more that we, as humans, are like ourselves, the more we are like God....

It has to be noted that the vast majority of people who subscribe to any of the world religions are so inarticulate about their faith...

It is in allowing Christ to live in us fully that we find true joy on earth. Only emotionally immature and inarticulate people define...