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On Vulnerability
Shame and empathy researcher Dr. Brené Brown presents on the power of vulnerability, from her research and book, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. Vulnerability isn’t good or bad. It’s not what we call a dark emotion, nor is...
The Secret to Learning
In 1915, aged thirty-six, Einstein was living in wartorn Berlin, while his estranged wife, Mileva, and their two sons, Hans Albert Einstein and Eduard “Tete” Einstein, lived in comparatively safe Vienna. On November 4 of that year, having just completed the two-page masterpiece that would catapult him into international...
Our Deepest Fear
Nelson Mandela 1994 Inaugural Presidential Speech Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually,...
Religion is for the sake of divine union, not social order
This is so insightful. How often do we miss the true meaning and purpose of religion. Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation 27th September 2013 In the divine economy of grace, sin and failure become the base metal and raw material for the redemption experience itself. Much of organized religion, however,...
Abundance – Hiroshima Day
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 Christian terminology this inherent holiness is called the Divine Indwelling or the gift of the Holy Spirit. The awakening...
The Importance of Listening
We don’t teach meditation to the young monks. They are not ready for it until they stop slamming doors. Thich Nhat Hanh to Thomas Merton in 1966
No desires, no goal, no seeking …
Why We Shout in Anger
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 his disciples smiled and asked, “Why do people in anger shout at each other?” His disciples thought for a...
Incarnation
“Jesus has no hands but ours.” Teresa of Avila
Love – a way of looking
“Love is not a matter of looking at each other, but of looking together in the same direction.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Deep Silence
“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 know that God will choose to be revealed in the nature which surrounds them, in the people they meet,...
Obaudire
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 much of our time listening, but often this may only take us across the threshold of ‘auditory over-load’ into...
Born to Love
Supermoon
Sunday night June 23rd, 2013 As the moon rose tonight over Western Port Bay, it was an eerie red colour and quite large and bright. The photo shows how the sky was lit up as if it was twilight. The moon was at its closest proximity to the earth this...
Mythology
As myth transcends thought, Incarnation transcends myth. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heavens of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. ....
An Evolutionary Agenda for the Third Millennium
“Applying this larger time perspective to present-time terrestrial crises and urgencies, however, should not be egoically misinterpreted as a rationale to kick back and procrastinate. For if we continue to wait for some deus ex machina, spiritual or secular, to save us from ourselves – some final proof,...
Fanaticism – why pick on Islam?
I received an email recently entitled, “A German’s View on Islam”, and was about to send it off to others, because what it says about fanaticism and the silent majority seemed poignant at this time. But two things caused me to question its integrity; firstly, the original article has...
Words of Justice
“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” St. Augustine “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this...
Intention: faith or science?
Intentionality & The Field of God’s Love Firstly let us consider the nature and exploration of the science of Intention. Secondly let us consider particular intentions being held in the Field of God’s Love – that is to say intentions being held in prayer. Physics names and explores empirically what we know by faith...