Last week I spoke of our need for beauty, in nature, in works of art, in persons, and how it is sometimes only recognized when we actually experience that beauty. Beauty also reaches to our heart or core, behind all our many layers and defences. At the same time, it […] Read more
The Longing for Beauty
Last week I spoke of listening to and from our own heart, our sacred core. The process of tuning in to that core may involve passing through the uncertainties, hurts, fears, and hostilities, that we all experience; then acknowledging, feeling, and sharing them in a safe place. The challenge is […] Read more
Listening from the Heart.
Last week I spoke of listening to ourselves and others. This is a listening to and from the sacred core or centre of ourselves, and attempting to tune into the core or centre of another person. I recently heard a podcast on CBC Ideas, which suggested everyone is incredulous in […] Read more
The Still Small Voice
Last week, I referred to Erich Fromm’s conviction that people should experience themselves from the centre of their existence. Only then can they communicate with one another from that centre. Such communication in depth is, for him, the essence of love. It may be interesting to explore the connection between […] Read more
The Relational Context of Sacred Worth
I have repeatedly stressed the importance of recognizing and trying to experience deeply the sacred worth of ourselves, extending progressively to those near and far, and eventually to all beings. At the end of the last reflection, I mentioned briefly the thought that we are all relational and interdependent beings. […] Read more
The Emergence of New Life
I spoke last week of life as a process of endings and beginnings. These can take many forms. Every day, new light emerges from the darkness of night. Every season, the flowers of spring rise out of the snows of winter. In our own lives, hopefully, new joy arises from […] Read more
A Springtime of the Heart
Last week I spoke of an inner sacred core that is deeper than all wrongness, even if that core is not unrecognized or is denied or even betrayed in ourselves or another. That inner core may be considered an expression of the universe and of the energy that fuels its […] Read more
Intrinsic Sacredness and Forgiveness
Last week, I quoted Wayne Muller’s as saying that we must be careful how we name ourselves. That naming will shape our lives for good or ill. He adds that, regardless of our life’s experience, “there is a potent inner luminosity that is never extinguished and that is alive in […] Read more