Living Grace

Life’s most powerful and transformative truths are not transmitted primarily through words, but through the medium of inspired image, symbol, and metaphor - in words, the arts, and our own imaginations. These inspired images reach into the deepest fibers of our...

Have you ever noticed that the people who are the most loved are those who give the most love away? This is not an accident. Jesus, embodying the very love of God, tells us why in today’s Gospel. In Luke 6:27-38, we read, “Give, and gifts will be given to you; a good...

Monday: The very fabric of reality is love. Whatever is outside of love has only a shadowy, ghost-like existence. Thus, if our spirituality, life-choices, politics, laws, and beliefs are not grounded in love, they have no life-giving substance and are incapable of...

The spiritual life is simple; it’s a matter of living from the heart. The challenge is that we often have a superficial understanding of the heart, reducing it to feelings, emotions, and moods. Properly understood, the heart is so much more than these passing...

The predicament of the human race can be compared to a person sinking in quicksand while trying to lift himself out by pulling on his own hair. Only the substance and intensity of God’s love can elevate us up and out of the quagmire of egoic delusion. However, in...

Love is a blissful substance that we experience in the depths of our own souls. As Tomberg teaches, love is also an intensity and a cascading current that pulls out of ourselves and into ecstatic union with God’s presence within creation, with the guru’s...