When we lived in Washington, DC and I worked for a GOGO company (“Gay Owned Gay Operated“), I met and became very close friends with folks of “the gay community” of every shape, color, size, and stripe. Every belief and non-belief. Very wise people, a few crackpots, and folks for whom my respect for their [...]
An Acclamation Prayer is very simply a statement: something that you “acclaim” or say to be true. Unlike a prayer in which there’s some asking going to happen at the end, and unlike a meditative prayer which is sitting in silence and acceptance, this is one that we just get to say something good. And [...]
Part of the Contemplative Prayer practice is to begin by turning your attention to the task at hand. A moment to turn your thoughts and your vision inward to this time of silence, of sitting in whole acceptance, and one-on-one communion. Most folks start with a bell or gong. I use a well-worn Tibetan singing [...]
For those of you who are familiar with the practice of Centering Prayer as a contemplative practice, I got this very interesting quote today that is from a 14th Century book called The Cloud of Unknowing: The Classic of Medieval Mysticism. I admit that I never read this book in my travels because the translation [...]
In my daily tweet from Contemplative Outreach, (yea – I’m experementing with Twitter as a business tool, and that whole social marketing gig. for DayJob,, Inc) they brought up a question/quandry that I have had for a very long time. Contemplative Outreach sends out a quote every morning to folks who follow on Twitter, mostly [...]
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