The Traps of Worldly Anxiety 🪤
Explore the five main types of traps that hinder our freedom and block our connection to God. Find freedom through self-awareness.
Read Moreby andyotto | Sep 25, 2023 | Awareness, Scripture Reflections | 0
Explore the five main types of traps that hinder our freedom and block our connection to God. Find freedom through self-awareness.
Read Moreby andyotto | Aug 29, 2022 | Spiritual Practices | 1
Haste can be a mark of the evil spirit, while an unhurried—even inefficient—pace is often a mark of God’s kingdom.
Read Moreby andyotto | Mar 19, 2022 | The Tough Questions | 1
We’re all prone to the tactics of the evil spirit. For some it leads to catastrophic evil like war.
Read MoreWe all struggle with a “shadow side” that gets us anxious or judgemental. Ignatius invites us to externalise this part of ourselves a bit so we can let our true selves emerge, the part of us that is compassionate and loving.
Read Moreby andyotto | Oct 11, 2021 | Awareness, Discernment | 0
How do we know we’re moving toward union with God? Simple: we can know that by the fruits we see. Ignatius and Paul may use different words, but they’re in sync with the idea of “living by the Spirit”.
Read Moreby andyotto | Aug 23, 2021 | Awareness, Spiritual Practices | 2
Whenever we bring suffering or negative feelings into our consciousness, we give it less power over us. When we take a mindful, contemplative, and non-resistance stance like Jesus, we discover a new kind of freedom.
Read MoreThe ego is another name for the evil spirit. This is an important truth to understand if you wish to grow in the spiritual life. The evil spirit tries to protect the ego, which is just another word for the masks of self-importance and superiority we wear as individuals and groups. The good spirit, on the other hand, helps us transcend the egoic preoccupation.
Read MoreWe need to balance the inner work required to fight racism, transforming our own hearts, in addition to outer work like advocacy.
Read Moreby andyotto | Mar 2, 2020 | Ignatian Basics, Scripture Reflections | 1
The evil spirit uses the tactics of riches, honour, and pride to control us. Jesus has a different way.
Read Moreby andyotto | Oct 14, 2019 | Discernment, Ignatian Basics | 1
Consolation and desolation are key to discerning God’s movement in your life, but these terms are easily misunderstood.
Read MoreThere are some who live lives of anger and hurt, and they seek to continue to feed their pain. This is a sign of the evil spirit or, in the language of Eckhart Tolle, the “pain-body”. They key is not identifying ourselves with it.
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This guide will offer you a process and framework for discerning a particular decision using the approaches and prayer methods in the Ignatian tradition.