An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation

Reactive mind would be resigned to live in this prison, insulated from the simple suchness of life and love were it not for the fact that creation bestows an instinctual orientation toward our ground in the grounding love of God.

who are we to invite God in, who is already the very ground of our seeking? God is the great invitation—an invitation to release perpetually into that Love which finds Sabbath rest in us and sustains us in being.

As John Chapman writes in his Spiritual Letters, “Progress will mean becoming more and more indifferent as to what state we are in.”

this inner spaciousness, perceived as always having been present, is at the same time always new.

This allows grace to loosen this ego-knot and opens the way to a more expansive, receptive, far less cluttered awareness.

We go at these dualisms tooth and nail, and dualistically bludgeon them into what we triumphantly label “the non-dual.”

As the twentieth-century Serbian Orthodox monk Thaddeus of Vitovnica writes, “Everything is constantly changing; nothing remains static.”

Psychology calls this object-permanence. Theology in its own proper way calls this presence-in-absence.

The simplicity of God is too intimately present for the thinking mind, whether reactive or receptive, to fathom.