True or false? The contemplative life involves a certain amount of recollection. True or false? Contemplation requires some commitment to...

Contemplative prayer has always stood at a crossroad. It is the location where the spiritual dimension of reality intersects the real...

Love is the unconditional regard for others coupled to the actions that bear that out. God is love. God has an unconditional regard for...

If religion was an essential part of culture in the past, it certainly is not so today. There is no doubt that personal identity has...

...the only basis for it is found in the witness in the Bible, namely, that God is present and interactive in the world and not confined...

Contemplative living - being absorbed in the love of God and the concrete ability to respond to that love as manifest in the needs of...

Parenthetically it would be a mistake to believe that as a contemplative you can uncritically be engaged with the world, hoping that in...

It is a grave mistake to believe that discipline is a good in and of itself. This is a concept that rationalizes what the person...

God is distinct by virtue of being indistinct. - Meister Eckhart Today the so-called personal experience of God constitutes the mystical...

Genuine experience is made up of experience that is not contrived; it contains unplanned outcomes. Genuine experience raises very...

The long-term practise of contemplative prayer, properly aligned with humble openness to the direct experience of God, requires not...

Contemplative prayer is by no means a matter of training in piety, nor does it have anything to do with learning moderation. There is no...

The lack of discipline is fine if you are content to drift along in the stream that carries you through life. Everyone around the world...

The easy and habitual activities and values of the societies to which we are born, in which we are raised, and that we promote in adult...

Every day that you become less detached from a scheduled life, the more you get in rhythm with the natural world that surrounds you. The...

When it comes to behaviour Christian faith is neither an exercise in piety nor training in moral moderation. It has no system of modesty,...