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Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (Transforming Resources)
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Contemplative practice proceeds by way of the engaged receptivity of release, of prying loose, of letting go of the need to have our life circumstances be a certain way in order for us to live or pray or be deeply happy.
Martin Laird • A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation
attempting to keep the devotional and the critical together in one interpretative process:
Rowan Williams • Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel
with respect to the relationship between God and the innermost depths of the human person, “it is all about love melting in love.”
Martin Laird • A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation
It is a prejudice of modern thought that events happen only in the outer world.
Cynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
In monastic spirituality, then, leadership is not intent on making things right; leadership is intent on making life right.
Joan Chittister • The Rule of Benedict: A Spirituality for the 21st Century (Spiritual Legacy Series)
This is a good opportunity to introduce the concept of “wise discernment.”
J. Greg Serpa • A Clinician's Guide to Teaching Mindfulness: The Comprehensive Session-by-Session Program for Mental Health Professionals and Health Care Providers
Nor is everything that breaks up an impasse in our immediate world an expression of imaginal causality; chance and accident abound here as well. We have to look at the deeper purposiveness and read the larger pattern.
Cynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
Ministry Design Principle 12: