Life is one continuous moment, one moment after another moment, uninterrupted until we die. Our life adventure consists of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and the years unraveling at an alarming speed. I ask you, “What is the most significant moment you experienced today or last week? Are you aware of anything that you…
The Genesis narrative is paradise lost. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents the tree of “self-knowledge,” which separates us from the Creator of life. In the narrative, we become like God, knowing and experiencing life from a god-like perspective. Humanity now searches for the meaning of life through personal experience and…
Strictly speaking, contemplation is an immediate and in some sense passive intuition of the inmost reality, of our spiritual self and of God present within us. Thomas Merton Contemplation is the deep spiritual awareness of the eternal dimension of life. It is a walk both in the world and out of the world. It takes…
The presence of the kingdom of God is found in the quiet of the heart, not in the intellect of the mind. The major hindrance of intimacy with God is the mind. There can never be union and peace in our heart as long as the mind thinks and locates God out there and not…