Night walking and meditation
( I know you haven't asked lately. (which is fine), i am doing great. Read more... )

For the past fifty nights, i have not slept well, going to bed very late, staying awake a long time, waking frequently, and rising early.  Last night i got the best night's sleep i have had in a while, maybe ever!

I am a nocturnal member of a diurnal species.  My biological clock must have been set wrong at birth; added to that is the fact that i ( Read more... )

n order to arrive at having pleasure in everything, Desire to have pleasure in nothing ( Read more... )

"St. John of the Cross is considered one of the foremost poets in the Spanish language. Although his complete poems add up to fewer than 2500 verses, two of them - the Spiritual Canticle and the Dark Night of the Soul - are widely considered masterpieces of Spanish poetry, both for their formal stylistic point of view and their rich symbolism and ( Read more... )

HERE BEGINNETH THE SIXTH CHAPTER ( Read more... )

Thank you to bardcat for calling this to my attention.

Why We Need the Winter Solstice - NYTimes.com

".... I've learned that not knowing and often not even needing to know is a deeper level of knowing and a deeper form of compassion...."

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Father Rohr's meditation ( http://conta.cc/1w3sMQE ) this morning consists of a long quote from Miribai Starr's introduction to her translation of Dark Night of the Soul. ( It seems especially relevant...Read more... )

Apophatic theology ( Read more... )

This moment ( Read more... )