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Abundance – Hiroshima Day

By abundance August 6, 2013 Heart Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation, Contemplation, Posts

Hiroshima Day Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations “How can I be more holy?” We don’t have to make ourselves holy. We already are, and we just don’t know it yet. In…

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Why We Shout in Anger

By abundance July 23, 2013 Heart Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation, Contemplation, Posts

A Hindu saint who was visiting the River Ganges to take bath, found a group of family members on the banks shouting in anger at each other. He turned to…

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Incarnation

By abundance July 23, 2013 Heart Spirituality, Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation, Posts

“Jesus has no hands but ours.” Teresa of Avila

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Love – a way of looking

By abundance July 22, 2013 Heart Spirituality, Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation, Posts, Transformation Emergence Evolution

“Love is not a matter of looking at each other, but of looking together in the same direction.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Deep Silence

By abundance July 22, 2013 Heart Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation, Contemplation, Posts

“Deep silence leads us to suspect that, in the first place, prayer is acceptance. A person who prays is a person standing with their hands open to the world. They…

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Obaudire

By abundance July 21, 2013 Eremitical Life, Heart Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation, Contemplation, Posts

From; The Gift of Saint Benedict, by Verna A. Holyhead SGS and Lynne Muir. John Garrett Publishing, Victoria, Australia. 2002. Pp. 32-33 In contemporary life we may seem to spend…

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Born to Love

By abundance July 1, 2013 Heart Spirituality, Posts, Transformation Emergence Evolution, Transpersonal & Experiential Psychotherapy - TEP
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My Vocation is Love

By abundance June 13, 2013 Heart Spirituality, Posts

Beside myself with joy, I cried out: ‘Jesus, my love! I’ve found my vocation, and my vocation is love.’ From the Autobiography of St Therese Lisieux

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Set Pools of Silence

By abundance June 9, 2013 Heart Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation, Contemplation, Posts

“Incarnate Word, in whom all nature lives, Cast flame upon the earth: raise up contemplatives among us, men who walk within the fire of ceaseless prayer impetuous desire. Set pools…

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Festival of the Sacred Heart

By abundance June 8, 2013 Heart Spirituality, Posts

On Friday June 7, 2013, Heart of Life, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, and St Thomas Parish, Blackburn celebrated together the Feast of the Sacred Heart, with a 7pm…

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Contemplation: the Axis Mundi

By abundance June 6, 2013 Eremitical Life, Heart Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation, Contemplation, Posts

Father Teilhard de Chardin speaks in his book The Divine Milieu of a nun praying in a chapel in a desert place and, as she prays, all the forces of…

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Enneagram: Adelaide 2013

By abundance May 17, 2013 Heart Spirituality, Posts, Retreats, Seminars, Programs, Transformation Emergence Evolution, Transpersonal & Experiential Psychotherapy - TEP

Spiritual Dimensions of the Enneagram – Introduction A Weekend workshop introducing the Enneagram was held Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May, 2013 at Mary Mackillop Centre – St. Michael’s College Henley…

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Mindfulness Prayer Day and Seminars – Heart of Life, 2013

By abundance March 26, 2013 Heart Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation, Contemplation, Posts, Retreats, Seminars, Programs

Prayer Day – “Mindfulness and Meditation” Saturday 26th March, 2013 – 10am to 3.30pm Facilitated by Chris Chaplin msc —————————————- Seminars – “Mindfulness and Meditation” Five Wednesdays – February 27,…

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A Story on Communal Correction

By abundance January 17, 2013 Heart Spirituality, Posts

I was recently told of an African tribe that does a most beautiful thing. When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the centre of town,…

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To Your Mother’s Eye, Behold

By abundance December 29, 2012 Heart Spirituality, Posts

My mother only had one eye, (even though she wasn’t a Crow’s supporter). I hated her… She was such an embarrassment. She cooked for students and teachers to support the…

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Awakening to What I have

By abundance December 29, 2012 Heart Spirituality, Posts

“When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again…

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Understanding a Spiritual Crisis

By abundance November 4, 2012 Heart Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation, Contemplation, Posts

by Gord Riddell and Kathy Ryndak The process of spiritual awakening is most often an uncomfortable and painful event. While many people may have an interest in the spiritual realms and…

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Seminars – Heart of Life, 2012

By abundance October 16, 2012 Heart Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation, Contemplation, Posts, Retreats, Seminars, Programs

Story Telling and Visual Images in Spiritual Direction June 25 – 29: An opportunity to work with an esteemed mentor presented itself to me in June when I joined Peter…

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Devotedness to God brings Perfect Contemplation

By abundance October 1, 2011 Heart Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation, Contemplation, Posts

From Patanjali’s Meditation Yoga, Translation and Commentary by Vyn Bailey msc  SUTRA 45 SAMADHI-SIDDHIH ISVARA-PRANIDHANAT From devotedness to god comes perfection of contemplation SAMADHI contemplation SIDDHI efficiency • attainment • perfection…

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To Be Love

By abundance October 1, 2011 Heart Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation, Contemplation, Posts

THE OFFICE OF READINGS – 1st October A reading from the autobiography of St Teresa of the Child Jesus To be love, deep in the heart of the Church I…

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"Earth's crammed with heaven,
and every common bush afire with God.
But only he who sees takes off his shoes."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Aurora Leigh (1857), Bk. VII, l. 812-826 - thanks Steve.

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