Tag: contemplation

If our spiritual transformation is to be a long-term change, we must build a way of being that supports it in our everyday lives.

"The seasons shift! Rejoice!"

Several dozen of us, bundled up against the cold on the longest night of 2002, moved clockwise from our places to the next point on the compass. We were distributed around a large circle in...

A while back I attended a day retreat and had a significant spiritual experience. So, of course, when I went home, I immediately incorporated this Grace into my life. Or not.

We look up and see the stars. From Earth orbit, we look down and see the streetlights. And under the streetlights, we can no longer see the stars.

A few years ago, I went to a nearby retreat centre on a four-day solitary retreat. I ended up doing what I needed to, not what I planned.

The Heart of Contemplation can be very big, like a snow-covered landscape, or very small, like the small botanicals of a dried flower arrangement. The common and distinguishing features are Silence and attention to that Silence.