precisely because we think our lives, think our spirituality, think about God, we end up perceiving God as some “thing” over there, some cause among many other causes of things.

Our wounds bear the perfumed trace of divine presence.

takes less than a minute of attempting to practice inner stillness to realize that however fidgety the body may be the real obstacle to inner silence is the mind.

Our wounds bear the perfumed trace of divine presence.

We should always be wary of applying linear notions of progress to our prayer life and asking ourselves: “What stage am I in?” “How far have I progressed?” Whatever “progress” in prayer is supposed to mean, it certainly doesn’t work like that.

awareness as simple, spacious immersion in God gets refracted as the search for God-as-object-to-be-acquired.

as important as time set aside specifically for prayer, is learning to sit when you are not sitting. By this I mean, whenever the reasoning mind is not required for a specific task, take this as an opportunity to practice.

In order for humility to mature it must blossom into self-forgetfulness.

awareness as simple, spacious immersion in God gets refracted as the search for God-as-object-to-be-acquired.