Willard | Renovation of Heart

A simple list of spiritual disciplines would include Scripture meditation, solitude, silence, fasting, prayer, service, and celebration. As we make spiritual disciplines a part of our intentional daily practices, they will change us from the inside out.

Too often people try to change their lives by using the will as a kind of hammer to beat their life into proper shape. The intellect identifies the goal of the programme, and the will accordingly forces the life into that shape. This way of approaching the sacredness of one’s own presence is externalist and violent. It brings you falsely outside yo

My colleague and co-author of Presence, Otto Scharmer, explains a shift in orientation and intention that arises from three “thresholds,” or openings through which we must pass in leading profound change: opening the head, opening the heart, and opening the will.10 The first involves opening ourselves to see and hear what is in front of us but we h