When thoughts come to mind

Whatever thoughts come into your mind, 

whether they are good thoughts or religious thoughts, 

holy thoughts or bad thoughts, let them go and say the mantra. 

 (John Main, The Hunger for Depth and Meaning)

Meditation is the way of learning to be

Meditation is the way of learning just to be. To be who you are in the presence of God; to be who you are in complete simplicity. And that’s what the mantra leads us to when we learn to be faithful to it.  (John Main, The Hunger for Depth and Meaning)

Essence of Meditation

The essence of meditation is not the technique but what John Cassian called ‘purity of heart’. (John Main, The hunger for depth and meaning).

Are you fearless?

"Can one meditate, can one’s mind become one-pointed without being fearless? Not possible... Fear is one of the  primal urges and it’s because of the sense of self-preservation. As long as you are aware of yourself, you are afraid of others, who is going to hurt you? But the day you don't have that thought you are free! Meditation then starts..." 

Swami Rama

Meditation: A search for our infinite capacity to be loved.

Meditation and the poverty of it is no form of self-rejection. We are not running away from ourselves, nor do we hate ourselves. On the contrary, our search is a search for ourselves and the experience of our own personal and infinite capacity to be loved. (John Main, The Gethsemani Talks)

Undefended Knowing: A Conversation With Richard Rohr and Tilden Edwards | Fr. Richard Rohr

Undefended Knowing: A Conversation With Richard Rohr and Tilden Edwards | Fr. Richard Rohr:

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Two seminal teachers of the Christian contemplative movement -- Father Richard Rohr and Tilden Edwards -- joined Carole Crumley in conversation at The Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation earlier this year to reflect on their spiritual awakening and parallel paths in the Christian contemplative tradition.

Father Rohr, founding director of the Center for Action and Contemplation in New Mexico, and Edwards, founder and senior fellow of the Shalem Institute, were both young when they started this work: Tilden an Episcopal priest and the director of an ecumenical organization focused on social issues, and Richard a religious monastic-in-training. Both were inspired by their spiritual hunger to search deeper into the Christian tradition and both discovered a hidden richness there. Their awakening has helped propel the Christian contemplative movement and brought ancient monastic teachings into the digital age. Both envision that sharing contemplative practices enables us all to touch a deeper intelligence and to make us more available to the healing of the world.

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Meditation Opens your Awareness to......

“Meditation is a receptive state that opens your awareness to the perpetual radiation of your soul”

Doug Bottorff

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