Contemplation is ultimately none other than deepening a consciousness for love. It keeps alive this immanent experience, which theology...

It is important to both study and understand the various models of the human psyche. These lead to a better comprehension of the...

It is a fact that the direct experience of God does not depend in any manner at all on whether someone is easily disposed or not to...

When Anselm wrote that people were naturally religious he said that all you had to do to prove it was to observe that everyone else...

Language begets all arguments about God. It requires nothing to confess the articles of faith as set out by any religious body other...

So then briefly, contemplatives bear witness to the living possibility of the direct experience of God. Handed down from the stories in...

In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be...

So many religions, both great and small, historically hold out the lives of both men and women who under similar conditions of silence,...

Is there any doubt that people have more opportunity today to be self-determined than at any time in history? There is insatiable...

None of this means that contemplative life is incompatible with action. It's just that without a deeper, more integrated and holistic...

I have no interest in trying to convince anyone of anything regarding the connection between contemplation, contemplative prayer, or...

How in the world is it even possible that without all-out daily experimenting with genuine love, radical care, and comprehensive...

The direct experience of God that grows from genuinely quieting and denying oneself is a humble dimension of both internal and external...

There is no need for a new apology for Christian contemplation from an institutional point of view. Historically particular,...

There is a distorted view of God and the world and life in which prayer serves as a means for people to enter into a participation with...

I have a profound mistrust of all obligatory answers. - Thomas Merton, Contemplation In a World of Action The greatest irony of our time...

Likely the greatest gift that contemplative prayer offers to people is the chance to genuinely humanize us. It is in the opportunity to...

...that contemplative prayer preferences processing one's place in the world more deeply. ...that it involves an openness that gets used...

The map is not the territory - S. I. Hiakawa Openness to experience lies at the roots of contemplative prayer. There are no thoughts, no...