Things I've Learned

As somebody who reads and writes all the time, I come across scraps of paper I've written. As there's nothing new under the sun, I may have inadvertently copied someone else's ideas. Clue me in if I have. Thanks!

There's an outer contemplative
and there's an inner contemplative.
Silence is the outer form
Transformation of consciousness is the inner form

A stage is a place of consciousness we go or enter into.
A stage is a place of consciousness we come or work out of.

We become orthodox when we put our mind in our heart...seeing from wholeness.

Contemplative Church Quotes

"For the church is not wall and roof but faith and life." ~John Chrysostom c.349-407 Early Church Father, Archbishop of Constantinople 

Contemplative Quotes

Unity is found in the Presence of God. 

Our spirit is our gateway to God and to the eternal.

Spiritual life flows, it bubbles up like a spring in our heart, nourishing our soul.

Everything is revealed by the Glory of God. Every secret thought, every hidden deed. We are laid bare before the burning perfection of God.  And everything good, glows more fiercely from the holiness within.

God is prepared to use the place of our deepest need as the point of our restoration to the whole world.

Only as we take the time to be, can we truly become.

Take time captive to eternity, and be with God today.

It is no mere work of mortal man that we work out our transformation into the mess of our lives.

Our daily devotion is a time to tune our hearts with God's heart, so that we resonate with the vibration of heaven.

Our restoration is the process of removing each and every disconnect, one by one, by healing the flow of God in our hearts, our lives and our relationships. And it all begins in the presence of God.

You see, only God can answer our deepest doubts. Remember Job. Let me repeat it: Only God's presence will ever answer our deepest doubts.

Shifting into our spirit is when our awareness moves from our soul into our spirit. Not that we lose the awareness of our soul, but the center of our awareness shifts into the perspective of our spirit.

The purpose and practice of spiritual discipline is to help us to work out what God has worked within us. It's a divine discovery process whereby we integrate the sacred into our common life. Our glorious mess.

Our sacred passion flows from our ground of being.

Our analytical mind keeps us root bound within the counsels of our soul, while our intuitive heart calls us out into the realms of the spirit, inviting us to soar.