Living Grace

Monday: Never in recorded history have there been more words spoken and communicated between people, and never have more people felt isolated, alienated, and divided. Clearly, words alone have no power to heal or reconcile. It is the energy behind the words that...

We cannot make sacred silence happen; it comes as a grace. Yet, this grace is always being offered to us. It is our job to make room for the silence, thus making room for God. We make room for silence by choosing to foster contemplative prayer and meditation. We make...

The spiritual life is breathtakingly simple. It is all about love and attention. We attend to whatever we desire, cherish, and love, and ultimately, we become those things. If we are in love with our own egos, for example, we become more egotistical. If we love money,...

If we are honest with ourselves, we will readily acknowledge that we tend to be infatuated with desires, fantasies, and allurements having nothing to do with God or spirituality. As long as we remain under the influence of these infatuations, the super-consciousness,...

When it comes to nurturing our awareness of silence, we must remember that our souls are perpetually grounded in a state of pure consciousness. In yogic terms, this pure consciousness is referred to as “chit,” which means blissful silence, awareness, and luminosity....

Never in recorded history have there been more words spoken and communicated between people, yet never before have more people felt isolated, alienated, and divided. Clearly, words alone have no power to heal or reconcile. It is the energy behind the words that...