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St Peter
Impulsive master of misunderstanding, You comfort me with all your big mistakes; Jumping the ship before you make the landing, Placing the bet before you know the stakes. I love the way you step out...
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Tsimtsum and the coming into being of the other
Henri Nouwen, in The Wounder Healer, quotes James Hillman, who talks about the Jewish mystical doctrine of Tsimtsum, noting that God as omnipresent and omnipotent was everywhere. He filled the universe...
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Achtsamkeit für die Sprache
Ich vermisse heute bei vielen Predigten und bei der Gestaltung von Gottesdiensten die Achtsamkeit für die Sprache. Da spürt man oft nicht mehr das Bemühen für die Schönheit. (Anselm Grün, Schönheit:...
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Greeting the day
We greet the morning sun each day with our to-do lists, while the monk greets the sun with prayer and silence. Lonni Collins Pratt with Daniel Homan, Radical Hospitality: Benedict’s Way of Love Tagged:...
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And some final thoughts on longing from John O’Donohue’s essay on fire. This is the longing in all spirituality: to come in out of the winter of alienation, self-division and exile and into the hearth...
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Without the mystical, we are left without the full understanding or meaning that could exist. We can neither fully see, nor fully hear, the otherness of the divine without a fully developed sense for...
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Small clouds inexpressibly beautiful and silent and eloquent, over the silent woodlands. What a celebration of light, quietness, and glory! This is my feast, sitting here in the straw! Thomas Merton, A...
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