Today is the last day of Advent. The past couple of years I’ve kept an Advent journal. Last year I was grateful to reach the end; this year it’s different. For a long time I identified as a seeker. I sought God or enlightenment. Happiness and inner peace? It doesn’t matter. Really I was searchingContinue reading “Advent Journal: The Last Day”
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Advent Journal: It’s Okay to Love and Be Lifted
Christmas has to do with children. After all of this, given all of this, is that not clear? We are here for the little onesThe wind speaks to the lamb, and the lamb speaks to the shepherd and the shepherd speaks to all of us. The answer to all our problems is a gift, oneContinue reading “Advent Journal: It’s Okay to Love and Be Lifted”
Advent Journal: The Holy Spirit Will Not Deny You
The Holy Spirit will not deny you. Only the ego ever denies you. If you feel anything less than perfect peace – perfect happiness, perfect rest, and perfect holiness – then you are listening to ego, who never means you well. This is not a crime against God or nature but there IS a betterContinue reading “Advent Journal: The Holy Spirit Will Not Deny You”
Advent Journal: Now and Then Singing
I woke up all at once, under a great pressure: decide. But for what? What was the problem I was solving? Or the choice I was making? It was raining when I fell asleep close to midnight, but while I slept, the rain turned to snow, a light dusting of which spackled the world whileContinue reading “Advent Journal: Now and Then Singing”
Advent Journal: Pinballing
Last night, sitting quietly doing nothing, pinballing between memories, arguments and fantasies, I remembered something Chris Fields said, and it settled me. It quieted me. Fields points out (in his commentary on “Excavating Belief About Past Experience: Experiential Dynamics of the Reflective Act” by Urban Kordeš and Ema Demšar) that human experience obviously includes bothContinue reading “Advent Journal: Pinballing”
Three Brief Essays on Abhishiktananda
Notes on a Christian Vedanta I The Ass and the Heart are One I want to think about something Abhishiktananda said in Ascent to the Depths of the Heart. He said that Christianity could not possibly sugar out only as “concern for one’s brothers” because that failed to fully compass “the experience that Jesus hadContinue reading “Three Brief Essays on Abhishiktananda”