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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