Tag: darkness
History and Legacy of Visual Theology: Part 1
by Arthur Aghajanian | Apr 25, 2023 | Journal, Short Teachings | 0 |
Death is Not the End of Life
by Guy Finley | Apr 14, 2023 | Articles, Journal | 0 |
In this article, best-selling, self-realization author, Guy Finley, lays out for us how Real life serves the living without end. And, without end, it must constantly change itself to do this. But what do we serve when our heart and mind are as barren as a winter’s tree, and all we know to do in those moments is turn on ourselves with a vengeance for not being what we imagine we should be?
Read MoreWatch How Fear Fades as Your Patience Grows
by Guy Finley | Mar 18, 2023 | Articles, Journal | 0 |
In this article, Guy Finley shares with us how our quiet willingness to be an observer of our life will reveal and prove in us a new kind of unstoppable power.
Read MoreNew Creation and the Artist’s Role: Part 2
by Arthur Aghajanian | Feb 22, 2023 | Contemplative Christianity, Journal, Psychology & Personal Growth, Religion & Philosophy, Short Teachings | 0 |
Part 2 in a series about new creation and what this idea means in relation to art.
Read MoreQUIET MIND, PRESENT HEART …one breath at a time
by Calvin Wulf | Feb 20, 2023 | Articles, Contemplative Christianity, Contemplative Prayer, Journal | 0 |
Use Your Relationships to Unlock Love’s Power of Revelation
by Guy Finley | Feb 15, 2023 | Articles, Journal | 0 |
In this article, Guy Finley shares with us that our relationships become magical as we realize that whatever remains concealed within us can’t be healed, and that our partner (our mirror) in each moment is actually the agent of these revelations that alone can release us from our limitation.
Read MoreNew Creation and the Artist’s Role: Part I
by Arthur Aghajanian | Feb 8, 2023 | Contemplative Christianity, Journal, Psychology & Personal Growth, Religion & Philosophy, Short Teachings | 0 |
What do we mean by the biblical idea of new creation and how does it relate to creativity?
Read MoreThe Secret Prayer Critical for Real Self-Renewal
by Guy Finley | Jan 15, 2023 | Articles, Journal | 2 |
In this article, Guy Finley speaks about another kind of prayer, the one critical for real self-renewal where we ask God to be in charge of our lives, and to give us what we need, not what we want, in order to be renewed/reborn.
Read MoreHow to Find New Strength in Moments of Weakness
by Guy Finley | Dec 15, 2022 | Articles, Journal | 0 |
In this article, best-selling, self-realization author, Guy Finley, shares with us how our idea of strength isn’t strength at all and how we can learn what real strength is.
Read MoreMore Than Words
by Terri Knuth | Dec 3, 2022 | Articles, Journal | 0 |
In this article, Terri Knuth shares with us that Life is meant to be experienced through the feeling of it and not through the intellect as most of us currently communicate through.
Read MoreEnter Into an Unthinkably Confident Relationship with Life
by Guy Finley | Nov 16, 2022 | Articles, Journal | 0 |
In this article, best-selling, self-realization author, Guy Finley, shares with us how to enter into a completely different relationship with Life than we currently have, how to enter into the Will of God itself.
Read MoreWhen Does It End?
by Terri Knuth | Oct 18, 2022 | Articles, Journal | 0 |
In this short article, Terri Knuth shares with us that as intelligent as we claim to be, why is it that we haven’t seen that blaming, judging, and resenting others has never changed a thing?
Read MoreFind Wisdom and Balance by Accepting Self-Revelation
by Guy Finley | Oct 6, 2022 | Articles, Journal | 0 |
In this article, Guy Finley shares with us the essential need to bear ourselves consciously, which is the only way we can receive the revelation that God wishes us to receive.
Read MoreHovering Over the Waters
by Arthur Aghajanian | Sep 19, 2022 | Articles, Contemplative Christianity, Journal | 4 |
In this essay on the theme of grace, Arthur Aghajanian examines the drawings of contemporary artist Vija Celmins. He does so by framing Celmins’s “Ocean” drawings as representations of the idea of grace as the flow of God’s love. In addition, Arthur places these images in the context of the Classical tradition in art.
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