Jul 31, 2014

Ascesis, Prayer & Love
The Prayerful Life No. 46
Saying For Today: "The self cannot be the Self, for the self is personalized as a self separate from others and God, even separate from myself as I am truly - a Being-in-Union. This Being-in-Union is Love."

Jul 30, 2014

Intimacy Reveals Itself
The Prayerful Life No. 45
Saying For Today: "In this we know Intimacy, for we have ceased to be merely a happening among other happenings."

Jul 29, 2014

Graciousness of Heart
The Prayerful Life No. 44
Saying For Today: "I discover my essential nature is to be Kind, for the Center from which my life arises and returns is Love."

Jul 27, 2014

Touching and Otherness
The Prayerful Life No. 43
Saying For Today: "So, in touching, creation is happening, which is to say that God-is-happening."

Jul 25, 2014

The Gift of Just You
The Prayerful Life No. 41
Saying For Today: "Others tell me of God, but I can't see what they call God. I, however, can see you. And what I know with you and through you is Love."

Jul 24, 2014

Grace Silently & Powerfully
The Prayerful Life No. 40
Saying For Today: "This Grace acts without needing to call attention to Itself for Itself. This Grace does not demand to be noticed or praised, for Grace is sufficient to Grace."

Jul 22, 2014

Aliveness the Sheer Miracle
The Prayerful Life No. 39
Saying For Today: "I, suddenly, realized ... the sheer miracle of ... simply being alive"

Jul 21, 2014

A Transformed Loneliness
The Prayerful Life No. 38
Saying For Today: "This loneliness is free of the desperation that seeks escape from loneliness. This loneliness is imbued with a contentment, even a willingness to embrace that experience of pain-of-loneliness that might arise and see that experience as human and holy."

Jul 19, 2014

The Lovely and Baffling Silence
The Prayerful Life No. 37
Saying For Today: "I could conjecture, then, that what I share is not so much content, but the Mystery of Silence Itself. Possibly, that is all I share. And, possibly, even when I am speaking clearly and non-paradoxically, I still am offering only one thing - the baffling and lovely Silence. "

Jul 17, 2014

Truth Itself
The Prayerful Life No. 36
Saying For Today: "Silence frees us, though somewhat painfully at times, from the ignorance that parades itself as wisdom, the fear that postures itself as faith, and the intellectual laziness that constumes itself as loyalty to tradition."

Jul 16, 2014

Dancing in Sunlight
The Prayerful Life No. 35
Saying For Today: "Come out, play with ... Love in Love"

Jul 15, 2014

Rituals of Intimacy
The Prayerful Life No. 34
Saying For Today: "Such small actions and rituals, ordinary and not called religious, may serve to connect us more with others than apparently grander expressions of love."

Jul 14, 2014

Hug of Compassion
The Prayerful Life No. 33
Saying For Today: "This is all a Mystery, but known in experience as truly as the feeling of touching your own face right now."

Jul 13, 2014

The Inclusive Solitude
The Prayerful Life No. 32
Saying For Today: "True Solitude is not a transcendence from others or myself, but a transcendence among others in which I find peace and love. "

Jul 12, 2014

A Choiceless Grace
The Prayerful Life No. 31
Saying For Today: "And, regardless, our Love still shines, and on everyone, both in our limitations in loving and in others who do not receive that Love."

Jul 10, 2014

Mystery Meeting Mystery
The Prayerful Life No. 30
Saying For Today: "Here, I know that all labels are a covering, a decoration, a veil over the Truth the other is, or that lives Within and shines through him or her."

Jul 9, 2014

Absolute Devotion to the Absolute
The Prayerful Life No. 29
Saying For Today: "The Truth is liberating partly for Truth deconstructs all claims of thought, even the thought embodied in the scriptures of faiths."

Jul 8, 2014

Resting in God with You
The Prayerful Life No. 28
Saying For Today: "For Aloneness, which is the harmony of apartness and togetherness, in and from and to Love becomes our shared Communion, our Solitude."

Jul 5, 2014

We Are
The Prayerful Life No. 26
Saying For Today: "We can live together in Love without the confessions and creeds, but we cannot live together in Love apart from the inward confession and conviction "we are.""

Jul 4, 2014

Prayer Happen-ing
The Prayerful Life No. 25
Saying For Today: "... reverential participation ... in the intimacy of Life liv-ing Itself"

Jul 2, 2014

Faithful Unfaith
The Prayerful Life No. 24
Saying For Today: "... the Heart already, always, knows the Truth ..."