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Integration

Awakening to one's alienation. Opting for one's integration. Both are clear signs of maturity. This is a transcultural process. It...

A Word Of Caution

Alienation is universal across societies today. People have no genuine understanding of how to relate to one another or the world. ...

This Is Not

There is no contractual justification when it comes to the direct experience of God; there is no 'if then...so that'. This is pure...

The Sum Of People's Egos

Some people assume that guilt is an adequate controller or regular of behaviour. It is not. The ego with the sum total of its...

The Renunciation Of Active Works

The practise of contemplative living is inexorably tied to withdrawal. Contemplative living above all bears witness to the humble...

A Different Order Of Living

Contemplative prayer, whether lived in community or in solitude, is simply a life of prayer and of witness. The direct experience of God...

Duty

There have always been people who want the benefits without doing the work. When it comes to the direct, infused knowledge of God, this...

Vows

The suggestion to the mass of people in the west today that there is something even remotely inviolable to which they are absolutely...

Delusional

The exclusiveness with which people organize themselves short-circuits all personal sincerity. Trying to force people into certain...

The Contest

Whenever a religious movement becomes established, it becomes an institution. Personal experience becomes deferred to social commitment....

The Things Of Greatest Importance

ἔσχατος- -λογία eskhatos- (ultimate) -logia (word) eschatology - lit. - words on the things of greatest importance ________ intro-verete...

A Contemplative...

...does not have to prove that technology is good - or bad - it is enough for them that God is good. - Thomas Merton (alt.)

The Illusion Of Special Election

You cannot solve moral dilemmas by applying generalized rules. That is why contemplation is so important to the spiritual life because it...

Grand Illusions

Contemplation calls people to a desert frontier. Beyond this frontier there are no police. The historical fate of organized attempts at...

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