When I went to seminary I went there in order to gain a better grasp on my already direct experience of God. What I found there were some...

There is no doubt that the machinery that can be associated with contemplative discipleship may actually work to impose limits that...

A calling to contemplative prayer is a calling to become a new person, a more authentic person, someone who is more profoundly true to...

There is no doubt that there is a direct relationship between the arrival of the scientific movement in the 1600's, and a shift in the...

It is through the manner in which we understand our self that we come to accept our place in the world. The problem is that we cannot...

self-absorbed self-abuse self-annihilation self-asserting self-assumption self-assurance self-aware self-betrayal self-centred...

Psychopathy is best understood as a condition that is made up of a group of traits that while distinct coalesce into a single social...

Now community. Now solitude. Now ascesis. Now physical labour. Now prayerful reading. Now silent prayer. Now liturgy. Now...

The whole point of contemplative prayer is to reveal and remove the limitations imposed on our perceptions through ordinary, enculturated...

Dirtbag - A person who is committed to a given (usually extreme) lifestyle to the point of abandoning employment and other societal norms...

There is so much more to understanding the solitary, contemplative, and compassionate life than reason. Merton saw it as a dialectic...

The practises of solitude and contemplation have never done anything in and of themselves to guarantee results in regard to the lively...

Do you truly seek God? Anyone who wants to come to God must believe that there is a God and God rewards those who sincerely look for God....

There is no question as to whether genuine contemplative life is alien to the ways of the world. Your way of acting should be different...

There are two ways in which the contemplative life can be looked at. The first way considers the institution as guardians of a fixed...

It has never been sufficient to use conventional notions when we refer to the contemplative life. It is simply not possible to discover,...

People who live in nature experience the consequences of their actions immediately and on a personal level. For those who live in an...

Personal integrity, inner peace, authenticity, identity, depth, joy, the capacity to love and be loved, the ability to be comfortable and...

Nothing is more disillusioning than persons of limited and mediocre humanity, less than mature, incapable of love for others, narrow,...