Integration
Awakening to one's alienation. Opting for one's integration. Both are clear signs of maturity. This is a transcultural process. It...
Awakening to one's alienation. Opting for one's integration. Both are clear signs of maturity. This is a transcultural process. It...
Alienation is universal across societies today. People have no genuine understanding of how to relate to one another or the world. ...
In truth there are probably more people than not - especially in the West - who take an unhealthy comfort from thinking that their being...
...at best helps people to live with their illnesses. There is nothing emancipatory about doing so. Consider the state of each society...
There is no contractual justification when it comes to the direct experience of God; there is no 'if then...so that'. This is pure...
Some people assume that guilt is an adequate controller or regular of behaviour. It is not. The ego with the sum total of its...
Most movements are organized around concepts. The people within the movement do not have a problem with the concepts because they are,...
Most people today are familiar with the word objectification, which is the act of treating a living entity in a way that disavows its...
A considerable amount of uneasiness and ambivalence in the monastic life today is due perhaps to the fact that although we possess clear...
The practise of contemplative living is inexorably tied to withdrawal. Contemplative living above all bears witness to the humble...
Contemplative prayer, whether lived in community or in solitude, is simply a life of prayer and of witness. The direct experience of God...
There have always been people who want the benefits without doing the work. When it comes to the direct, infused knowledge of God, this...
The suggestion to the mass of people in the west today that there is something even remotely inviolable to which they are absolutely...
The exclusiveness with which people organize themselves short-circuits all personal sincerity. Trying to force people into certain...
Whenever a religious movement becomes established, it becomes an institution. Personal experience becomes deferred to social commitment....
ἔσχατος- -λογία eskhatos- (ultimate) -logia (word) eschatology - lit. - words on the things of greatest importance ________ intro-verete...
...does not have to prove that technology is good - or bad - it is enough for them that God is good. - Thomas Merton (alt.)
You cannot solve moral dilemmas by applying generalized rules. That is why contemplation is so important to the spiritual life because it...
Contemplation calls people to a desert frontier. Beyond this frontier there are no police. The historical fate of organized attempts at...