Spiritual Direction

"Thought is the face that we put on the meaning that we feel and that we struggle with. The world is always larger and more intense and stranger than our best thought will ever reach."-John O'Donohue

Although it is easy enough to hear things, be slow in speaking about them. Prudence never repeats what is heard about another, whether true or not.

“We must get back into relation through daily ritual. We must begin again the ritual of dawn and noon and sunset. Of kindling fire and pouring water. For the truth is we’re perishing from the lack of fulfilment of our greater needs. We are cut off from the source of inward nourishment and renewal. Sources that flow eternally in the universe.

each other because each stands on such different ground. When you compare yourself to others, you are inviting envy into your consciousness; it can be a dangerous and destructive guest.

The imagination works on the threshold that runs between light and dark, visible and invisible, quest and question, possibility and fact. The imagination is the great friend of possibility. Where the imagination is awake and alive fact never hardens or closes but remains open, inviting you to new thresholds of possibility and creativity.

Often our loneliness and isolation is due to a failure of spiritual imagination.

THE secret of my identity is hidden in the love and mercy of God. But whatever is in God is really identical with Him, for His infinite simplicity admits no division and no distinction. Therefore I cannot hope to find myself anywhere except in Him. Ultimately the only way that I can be myself is to become identified with Him in Whom is hidden the