Shadow and Being Blindsided “… like most dark nights of the soul, wounds expectedly and at a particularly vulnerable part of ourselves. When you read the literature on nights of the soul by the great mystics, you see that a dark night of the soul almost always hits you in...
Reflections
Reflections
About Being Interiorly Divided
Tuesday 23rd December 2015 James 1:1-11 From James, servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Greetings to the twelve tribes of the Dispersion. My brothers, you will always have your trials but, when they come, try to treat them as a happy privilege; you understand that your...
Taken, Blessed, Broken, Shared
Monday 22nd December, 2015 Life of the Beloved, Henri Nouwen Taken To become the Beloved we, first of all, have to claim that we are taken. That might sound very strange at first, and, still, to be taken is essential in becoming the Beloved. As I have mentioned already,...
One of the best things you can do to feel happiness
It is a well-known secret that dance activates the whole of the person. It connects us to our emotions and our bodies. When we are feeling stressed, tired, lost, dance get us going again, lifts the spirit and lightens the soul. Enjoy this short selection of spirited dance. Be...
The Virtuous
Friday 20th March 2015 Wisdom 2:1,12-22 The godless say to themselves, with their misguided reasoning: ‘Our life is short and dreary, nor is there any relief when man’s end comes, nor is anyone known who can give release from Hades. Let us lie in wait for the virtuous man,...
The Tyranny of the Should
Neurosis and Human Growth: THE STRUGGLE TOWARD SELF-REALIZATION Dr. Karen Horney From Chapter 3: The Tyranny of the Should – a paraphrase Unlike Pygmalion, who tried to make another person into a creature fulfilling his concept of beauty, I set to work to mold myself into a supreme being...
Friday 14th February 2014
Last night I read Pope Francis’ message to the World Economic Forum in Davos (for text go to: http://abundance.org.au/ensure-humanity-is-served-by-wealth-not-ruled-by-it/ ). I was jolted by the following words, “Those working in these sectors have a precise responsibility towards others, particularly those who are most frail, weak and vulnerable. It is...
Sunday 12th January 2014
Isaiah 42:1-4,6-7 … my chosen one in whom my soul delights. … I have endowed him with my spirit that he may bring true justice to the nations. …. He does not cry out or shout aloud, or make his voice heard in the streets. He does not break...
Saturday 11th January 2014
Gospel Luke 5:12-16 Jesus was in one of the towns when a man appeared, covered with leprosy. Seeing Jesus he fell on his face and implored him. ‘Sir,’ he said ‘if you want to, you can cure me.’ Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said, ‘Of course...
Thursday 9th January, 2014
1 John 4:11-18 “…as long as we love one another God will live in us and God’s love will be complete in us…. We ourselves have known and put our faith in God’s love towards ourselves. God is love and anyone who lives in love lives in God, and...
Wednesday 4th September, 2013
Meister Eckhart said, “The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”
Sunday 4th August, 2013
The separate self is the problem, whereas most religion and most people make the shadow self the problem. This leads to denying, pretending, and projecting instead of real transformation into the Divine (Transformation). The Fifth Theme, from the Seven Underlying Themes of Richard Rohr’s Teachings
Saturday 3rd August, 2013
When we find what we were not looking for, there is deep joy. The joy of discovering what we are not looking for. The journey not the destination is what is important. Bishop Vincent Long from homily at Pat Mara’s Deaconate.
Thursday 25th July, 2013
Sorrento Retreat Day 7: The goal, if there is one, is out of sight. I see no thing, nor do I intuit where it is leading me. I am in the darkest dark I have known. Not a dark humour but a darkness of clarity. To arrive at a goal I...
Wednesday 24 July, 2013
Sorrento Retreat Day 6: Again, light and joy. Light and joy at some level beneath apprehension. Light and joy in the morning and light and joy in the evening. And if this is so then light and joy is the constant underpinning of standing in willingness rather than a...
Tuesday 23 July, 2013
Sorrento Retreat Day 5: While to my complete awe I am greeted again, a seventh time in three days, with light and joy, there is a new night-time dawning. The clarity with which separation is determined, is not clear at all. I turn and face the strange; as Bowie serenaded in the...
Monday 22 July, 2013
Sorrento Retreat Day 4: The joy and light of the last two days offers a fruit-bearing branch. It seems the time of travail is ended and I have come home to myself in some regard – the separation, mindfulness and determination now a deliberate choice. The unexpected shift that...
Friday 19 July, 2013
Sorrento Retreat Day 1: Rising, I recall the dream of hours earlier, talking with David Bowie – what a nice guy! The night messenger still playing in my head the music but with some adapted (italics) lyrics. Don’t know if the dreaming has a problem with copyright infringement. Changes by David...
Friday 15 February, 2013
“Jung correctly ascribed evil to the failure to “meet” the shadow”. M Scott Peck, People of the Lie. p.69
Saturday 9 February, 2013
Who is God? Human images of God; God’s personal self-revealing to us in prayer is filtered through our perceptive template. I image God to be who I want/need God to be. Yet God is constantly drawing us to who God is beyond of our projections. What happens to “the...