One of the ways in which the world tyrannizes Christ is found precisely in its demand that people explain and justify their lives...

If you are not in some sense living in a desert, then your life has no practical advantage to living anywhere else on earth. If you are...

...and this is precisely when troubles arise. Because for most people they start to dwell on the experience in such a way that instead...

There can be absolutely no doubt: Christian contemplative experience is thoroughly scandalous. It does not aim for this, but it is...

Being open to the experience of God in the midst of people who only think in terms of accomplishing things exteriorly, is to be summoned...

The community of the direct experience of God - contemplatives. This means those who share the lived experience, even though they are...

When it comes to breaking out of the highly manipulated fiction of the modern church there have been innumerable social attempts to...

In reality it is the hierarchy and the clergy and the middle-class people of any denomination are the ones who set the policies and...

The established social power structures (principalities) includes the churches. You simply have to accept these uncritically in order to...

It is a sad fact that throughout history and today many who wish to portray themselves as solitaries or contemplatives are in some...

This contemplative life of freedom, humility, peace, surrender, transformation, and joy. A life of love as termed in the Gospel and the...

All Christians are supposed to be people who wholeheartedly seek God. However, in most Christian's minds what happens is a looking back...

The future of the direct experience of God exists in direct proportion to one thing, namely, that contemplatives are contemplatives and...

...looking to solve the lack of fully human integration in the world today work to initiate a purely secular and fragmented solution to...

The discipline of denying oneself in regard to religious life boils down to assisting ourselves to identify and then to provide...

While the discipline of denial (ascesis) as practised in a community is never totally irrelevant and most definitely a large part of...

There is an interior solitude that is beyond being analyzed or intellectualized. It is found only in becoming fully emptied. It...

There is no doubt that all religious societies understand that a large majority of their identity is made up of attempts to neutralize...

It is this freedom of the spirit, this liberation from the limits of partial and fragmentary cultural experience and values, that is the...

Most people grow up in their respective cultures and never ever question its role in shaping their lives. They never think about its...