Tag Archives: Detachment
An Enormous Freedom
Emotional sobriety is the same as detachment from our own ideas of happiness. Continue Reading An Enormous Freedom
A Mind-Heart Connection
Eventually toxic emotions will disappear and nontoxic thinking will start to arise in our hearts. Continue Reading A Mind-Heart Connection
Emotional Maturity
If an emotion does not help us read a situation better and more truthfully, we must let it go—for our own well-being. Continue Reading Emotional Maturity
Expanding Circles of Love
The only way I know how to teach anyone to love God, is to love what God loves, which is everything and everyone. Continue Reading Expanding Circles of Love
Standing Still, Moving the World
Contemplation and Action Summary Standing Still, Moving the World Tuesday, December 29, 2020 Give me a place to stand, and I will move the whole earth with a lever. —Archimedes Archimedes (c. 287–c. 212 BCE), a Greek philosopher and mathematician, noticed that if a lever was balanced in the correct place, on the correct fulcrum,… Continue Reading Standing Still, Moving the World
Spiritual Development
Thomas Keating: The Secret Embrace, Part Two Spiritual Development Sunday, October 25, 2020 Before we continue exploring Thomas Keating’s poems from The Secret Embrace under the helpful guidance of Cynthia Bourgeault, I want to offer a basic overview of the stages of spiritual development that I have used for years with spiritual directees and in… Continue Reading Spiritual Development
Freedom in the Desert
Mystics and the Margins Freedom in the Desert Tuesday, September 29, 2020 When Christianity became the established religion of the Roman Empire, something remarkable and strange took place. A whole set of people began to flock to the margins of the Empire to pursue God. They went to the deserts of Palestine, Cappadocia, Syria, and… Continue Reading Freedom in the Desert