Hearing the Other into Speech ~ A Life-Line

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

This week I am giving three days of talks to spiritual directors-in-training. My topic is On Being Present. Among the various things I will talk about is Nelle Morton's powerful experience and idea of hearing the other into speech. And not just into Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the hidden and holy heart of it because in the Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last Read more [...]

To Be Moved from Our Depths

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to the Excitement (continued) Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. ~ Abraham Heschel In addition to our inborn inclination for delight, excitement signals the felt sparkle of existence itself. Listening to the excitement means Read more [...]

Delighting in the Nod of God

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Listening to the Excitement (continued) I don't know Who -- or what -- put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone --or Something --and from that hour I was certain that Read more [...]

Listening Loudly: The Doorway to Delight

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to the Excitement (continued) If things created are so full of loveliness, how resplendent with beauty must be the One who made them! ~ St. Anthony of Padua If we leave our assumptions and measuring sticks for what is meaningful behind, Read more [...]

Listening to the Excitement

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

For lack of attention, a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. ~ Evelyn Underhill When I was a young boy growing up in Seattle, nothing thrilled my brothers, sisters and me more than the possibility each winter of snow and, heavens willing, Read more [...]

Facing the Boredom that Hides the Face of Despair and Death

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to Boredom (continued) If we can’t face death, we’ll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. ~ Maya Lin Courage is Fear that has said its prayers. ~ Karle Read more [...]

The Icy Storm Within

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to Boredom (continued) Everything that happens to you is your teacher... the secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. ~ Polly B. Berends ~ The cyclic tragedy of it all is that too often easily bored Read more [...]

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Category Archives: Listening

Hearing the Other into Speech ~ A Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

To Be Moved from Our Depths

Delighting in the Nod of God

Listening Loudly: The Doorway to Delight

Listening to the Excitement

Facing the Boredom that Hides the Face of Despair and Death

The Icy Storm Within