Brother Weeps on the Hardest Thing about the Spiritual Life

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

A young man once asked Brother Weeps, “Brother, what is the hardest thing about the spiritual life?” Brother Weeps thought for a moment and said, “First of all, let’s remember. There is only life. Just one life. The spiritual life is just Read more [...]

My Sunday Mo(u)rning Rant*

Posted on May 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Experience shows humans tend to care for what we know and love, those we know and love. So the summons to life, the summons from and for life, the summons for survival -- no longer ours, but that of our children and grandchildren and the well-being Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Encourages: Join the Choir

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

One day before Brother Weeps began his daily conference with the novices, a young monk raised his hand. "Yes, Brother Placid," said Brother Weeps. "Brother Weeps, why when church groups or organizations come to the Abbey for retreat do you Read more [...]

Just Wondering

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

[Humankind] will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder. ~ Read more [...]

The Sacrament of Music

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Aaaah! The power of music to move people, to return us to ourselves, to act on young and old alike, to connect us to one another -- family, friend, stranger, foe -- to rearrange our precious plans by the maestro's genius for arranging notes that lean Read more [...]

Consenting to Be Moved, Daring to Respond – A Life-Line

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: It is in our consenting to be moved, our conscious awareness of collaborating with the present moment, and in both our duty and daring to respond lest we betray our own humanity that the mystic and the prophet meet, the one Read more [...]

Help Us to See

Posted on January 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Days pass and the years vanish and we walk sightless among miracles. [You] fill our eyes with seeing and our minds with knowing. Let there be moments when your Presence, like lightning, illumines the darkness in which we walk. Help us to see, wherever Read more [...]

Sister Mahala Gives a Word (two, in fact) of Life

Posted on October 3, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A seeker walked a long distance to ask the guidance of Sister Mahala whom many called Amma Mahala. When he met her, in the fashion of pilgrims seeking out the abbas and ammas in the desert of Egypt in the 3rd century, he bowed his head once in a reverent Read more [...]

Sister Mahala and Brother Weeps’ Most Important Teachers

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A man in his mid-twenties said to Sister Mahala and Brother Weeps, “You have taught us so much these past few years. We are grateful for all that you have opened up for us. The provocative questions you have raised we will carry with us for the Read more [...]

Sometimes All We Can Do Is Bow

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

There is nothing more whole than a broken heart. ~ Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk Mother Teresa, the Albanian nun who took into her heart and home the destitute and dying in Calcutta, popularized for many Christians the Indian greeting “Namaste” Read more [...]

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