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“the silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.”
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
takes less than a minute of attempting to practice inner stillness to realize that however fidgety the body may be the real obstacle to inner silence is the mind.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down -- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pal
... See moreThere is something healthy and reviving to our spirituality about slowing down with silence, rest, and meditation. These practices open us to the mystery of time. They take us deeper into time, making us available to the movements of divine action breaking into time, to the very ways time is enveloped by eternity.