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Stop Being Spiritual (Start Being Human)
In this featured article, Keith Kristich asks the important question: what if spirituality has a more practical end than feeling spiritual all the time? What if spirituality and all our spiritual practices are simply means of making us more human and more lovingly so?
Tuesday Tip with Rich: Filled with God
In today's tip, Rich talks about the purpose of Centering Prayer and how he used to think it was to be filled with God. What changed?
Marking the Hours
Contemplative light is pleased to shared a featured post by artist and writer, Keren Dibbens-Wyatt. Keren writes about how human beings need markers to keep track of things and the way this plays out in the contemplative life.
Rohr’s Vision Of Nondual Reconstruction:The Wisdom Pattern Book Review
Richard Rohr has a superpower: the ability to clearly articulate what it means to live out a nondual perspective amidst the turbulent seas of modern life while remaining connected to the Christian tradition. Marc Thomas Shaw reviews Rohr's latest book: The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder.
Meditation as a Pathway to Awaken to Love
Meet our newest writer, David Youngren. In this article, he asks the question, Could it be that when you meditate upon Love as the Ground of Being, you experience oneness with that love?
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The peaceful benefits of acceptance, non-attachment, and non-resistance.
This week, Tim Moon writes about various sources of mindfulness, what they are and what they're not.
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COVID 19 and the New Normal
Sharing her own struggles, asserting the possibility of basic goodness, and digging deeper into the first chapter of Genesis, Kimberly Holman asks us to contemplate the possibility of a new normal coming out of the COVID 19 crisis.
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Contemplative Christianity
Marking the Hours
Contemplative light is pleased to shared a featured post by artist and writer, Keren Dibbens-Wyatt. Keren writes about how human beings need markers to keep track of things and the way this plays out in the contemplative life.
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Unconditional Love for Ourselves and Derek Chauvin
In this heartfelt and perhaps difficult conclusion to our series on navigating the world today, guest writer and friend of this project, Bob Lewis, asks us to consider what it might mean to love ourselves unconditionally.
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Centering Prayer
Tuesday Tip with Rich: Filled with God
In today’s tip, Rich talks about the purpose of Centering Prayer and how he used to think it was to be filled with God. What changed?
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Tuesday Tip with Rich: Lying Down to Pray
In this week’s tip, Rich Lewis answers the question, “Is it ok to practice Centering Prayer on my back?”
Read MoreMeditation & Mindfulness
Stop Being Spiritual (Start Being Human)
In this featured article, Keith Kristich asks the important question: what if spirituality has a more practical end than feeling spiritual all the time? What if spirituality and all our spiritual practices are simply means of making us more human and more lovingly so?
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Ripening, I Am
Devotional singer, composer, and lifelong student of the mystical traditions, Carrie Grossman, shares a poem with us today – Beneath the painted masks of personality, I am consort of eternity.
Read MorePsychology & Personal Growth
Stop Being Spiritual (Start Being Human)
In this featured article, Keith Kristich asks the important question: what if spirituality has a more practical end than feeling spiritual all the time? What if spirituality and all our spiritual practices are simply means of making us more human and more lovingly so?
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The Value of Spiritual Friendship
We are so pleased to welcome a new writer into the conversation about navigating the difficult terrain of the world today. Dan Lawrence shares his reflections on the value of spiritual friendship.
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Is the fear of death the beginning of misery?
Tim Moon offers a deep and compelling look at the connection between human misery and the fear of death.
Read More Rohr’s Vision Of Nondual Reconstruction:The Wisdom Pattern Book Review
Richard Rohr has a superpower: the ability to clearly articulate what it means to live out a nondual perspective amidst the turbulent seas of modern life while remaining connected to the Christian tradition. Marc Thomas Shaw reviews Rohr’s latest book: The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder.
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