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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye Read more [...]
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Contemplative life does not have to be seen as a special vocation reserved for some special souls only; it is open to all, and all are invited to enjoy it. You do not have to be in special circumstances to practice it because Read more [...]
Wonder and the Antiphonal Nature of Life
A Reflection in Three Parts
Part Three
I’m a soul in wonder. ~ Van Morrison
In the place where wonder comes from,
there I find you. ~ Bruce Cockburn
Out of the mouth of babes. ~ Some former babe
Every person, every couple, every family Read more [...]
Natural Happiness and Incarnations of Beauty
A Reflection in Three Parts
Part Two
Thinking of the power of awe reminds me of another one of my spiritual heroes, Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. A fallible and faithful friend Read more [...]
Awe and Intimations of the Divine
A Reflection in Three Parts
Part One
The heavens are telling the glory of God. ~ Ps. 19:1
The world is charged with the grandeur of God ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Awe is an intuition for the dignity Read more [...]
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Here’s what’s interesting— when studying shame and spirituality or shame and religion there are a lot of people—or over half of the people I have interviewed over the last thirteen years have pretty deep scars around faith Read more [...]
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"What do you think of the world to come?" an admirer asked Thoreau.
"One world at a time," Thoreau replied. Read more [...]
Words Spoken, Lessons Learned
A few days ago I discovered a box in the garage that contained a red three-ring binder. It contained five of the first homilies I ever preached. I offered them at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, a small parish in a small town that billed itself as the Gateway Read more [...]
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost Read more [...]
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The survival of the planet Earth in its integral reality is, it seems to me, the basic issue that confronts us here. In some basic sense, the human project and the Earth project are a single project. There is no way in which the Read more [...]