The Fear of an Insignificant Life

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to Boredom (continued) Related to the fear of exploring the inner self that is required for healthy, soulful living, is the suspicion that lurks just beneath the surface of many bored person’s lives, namely, that the lives they are now Read more [...]

The Fear of Self-Exploration

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to Boredom (continued) "We cannot become ourselves unless we know ourselves." ~ Thomas Merton ~ First, there is the fear of self-exploration. The work meant by this hyphenated word goes by many names these days: inner work, the journey Read more [...]

Imaging God

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Wednesday of the 2nd Week of Lent YEAR B (Mt. 20: 20-28) Whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give Read more [...]

Poetry and Faith as Participative Acts

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Lest those of us who are Catholic forget, the single greatest liturgical change that was set in motion at the Second Vatican Council, was not that the language of the Mass changed from Latin to the vernacular of the people gathered, nor that Monsignor Read more [...]

Poetry for the Sacred Journey

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

I want to follow up on our Sunday gathering with a few reflections, some poems, some encouragement, and some invitations. First, I continue to be astonished, moved, and blessed by the quality of persons who find their way to H&H either again and Read more [...]

Tzimtzum: The First Folly of God

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Whatever your personal cosmogony, the Jewish-Christian scriptures place great emphasis on the idea of creation. Literate Jews, Catholics, and main-line Protestants have little time or patience for the repartee between rigid fundamentalist Christians and Read more [...]

Prayer as Beholding

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Daniel J. Miller

So we (H&H) make the transition from a month of focusing on practicing silence and simplicity to a month of practicing prayer. This transition should not be the least bit jarring as silence and simplicity are intimately related and indispensable to Read more [...]

What to Do with Our Wonder

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Daniel J. Miller

Rabbi Heschel insists that the will to wonder and the intention of awe, however noble and efficacious, are not enough. He states, “The sense of wonder, awe, and mystery is necessary, but not sufficient to find the way from wonder to worship, from willingness Read more [...]

The Salvation of Silence

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Daniel J. Miller

Another reason silence is important is because it makes the deep wordless and nonconceptual prayer of contemplation possible. In prayer, silence is the voluntary poverty that invites persons to let go of their agendas, hidden or otherwise, and to let Read more [...]

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