Three Wisdom Tools To take this journey inward, we’re going to engage the three prajnas, or “wisdom tools,” of hearing, contemplating, and meditating.6 Hearing, or reading, about something leads to contemplating upon it, which leads to meditating on it. By reading and thinking about this material, you will be engaging the first two wisdom tools. In

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Contemplation is very far from being just one kind of thing Christians do: it is the key to prayer, liturgy, art and ethics, the key to the essence of a renewed humanity that is capable of seeing the world and other subjects in the world with freedom—freedom from self-oriented, acquisitive habits and the distorted understanding that comes from them

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If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read it, study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it. When people tell me their faith is weak, I ask them, “Are you reading your Bible regularly?” “Not really.” “Are you studying the Bible?” “Well, not exactly.” “Are you memorizing Scriptur

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“There should be no strain, striving, anxiety, or concern connected with this practice. Devote each evening to it, unless otherwise taken up by occasional business, social, or family duties. Allow these words to sink in and penetrate your being, and like drops of pure water entering a vessel of impure water, the nonessentials are forced out, drop b

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