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Longing for solitude

Friday, 06 July 2012 00:00

Eight hundred years ago, the poet Rumi wrote: What I want is to leap out of this personality and then sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached.

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The mystically-driven life

Friday, 29 June 2012 00:00

Mysticism is an exotic word. Few of us connect mysticism with ordinary experience, especially with our own experience.

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‘There's always something!’

Friday, 08 June 2012 00:00

A friend of mine jokingly says that when she dies she wants this epitaph on her gravestone: There was always something!

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A crack in our pitcher

Friday, 01 June 2012 00:00

There's a much quoted line from Leonard Cohen that suggests that the place where we are broken is also the place where our redemption starts: “There is a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in” (“Anthem”).

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Sun, storms, wilderness, deserts and spirituality

Friday, 25 May 2012 00:00

A number of years ago, accompanied by an excellent Jesuit director, I did a 30-day retreat using the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

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Papal intentions for June: That a culture of dialogue, listening, and mutual respect may prevail among peoples; That where secularization is strongest, Christian communities may effectively promote a new evangelization.