The Burden of the Call
We all want a calling. It is the embodiment of purpose, of mission and meaningfulness in a meaningless world. We can go to great length to look for and discover it. But the call often comes with a great burden. There is an initial heaviness around it, it leaves no...
via contemplativa
At this natural stillpoint of the year, many of us are already filling our calendars with resolutions that will ensure our busy-ness in the months to come. The ideology of achievement runs deep through the fabric of our society. We often feed it to our children from...
The Spiritual Pilgrim
"Un missionnaire du moyen âge raconte qu'il avait trouvé le point où le ciel et la Terre se touchent.." / "A medieval missionary says he has found the point where the sky and the earth meet.." . Flammarion engraving (sometimes referred to as "The Spiritual...
On Transformation
"Will transformation. O be ravenous for the fire in which a thing boastful with change forever eludes you; that designing Spirit which plots earth's flourishes, -- it loves most in the figure's élan the moment of turning. What shackles itself in survival already is...