A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals
God is stillness of the mind, an inseparable oneness with life.
Patrick McKeown • Anxiety Free: Stop worrying and quieten your mind - Featuring the Buteyko Breathing Method and Mindfulness
John of the Cross came to define deep prayer along similar lines. “Preserve a loving attentiveness to God with no desire to feel or understand any particular thing concerning God.”
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
In the depth of that silence, he heard it! The tinkle of a tiny bell followed by another, and another and another…and soon every one of the thousand temple bells was pealing out in harmony, and his heart was rapt in joyous ecstasy. Do you wish to hear the temple bells? Listen to the sound of the sea. Do you wish to catch a glimpse of God? Look inte
... See moreAnthony De Mello • The Song of the Bird
mystical silence in which one is simply aware of what is, here and now, without verbal or ideational comment.