Category: Awareness
Everything Begins with Gift
Gratitude is a cyclical force of creative love that feeds itself. It transforms us and opens our eyes to the divine goodness in all things.
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Life’s Mirrors: 4 Ways to Deeper Self-Knowledge
Our true selves are within us but sometimes we need a mirror to be held up before us so we can see it, and also see those false-self layers that need to be shed.
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The Ego: Another Name for the Evil Spirit
The ego cares about our possessions, our status, and our group membership – all things that are passing. The spiritual life ought to lead us to put our stock in the lasting promise of God.
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Filling an Empty Well
For many of us these days our energies are focused in fewer places than normal, which means those...
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What Boredom Unveils
Struggling with boredom? God may be using it to unveil difficult truths.
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Rejecting the Popular Image of God
The popular notions of God are terrible and along with many atheists, I reject them, too.
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Count Your Blessings
What do you do when you’re worried and can’t sleep?
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Noticing: The Heart of Spiritual Maturity
Key to Ignatian spirituality is awareness, noticing. When we notice the details about our life and surroundings, we get to encounter God.
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The Devil Made Me Do It! – Passing the Buck on Sin
“The Devil” is our own creation. The evil spirit, in Ignatian language, is us falling into the trap of being blind to our weak points.
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KonMari Your Spiritual Life in 6 Steps
How can you use Marie Kondō’s tidying method to declutter your spiritual life. It’s simple Ignatian discernment.
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The Principle & Foundation: Ignatian Spirituality in a Nutshell
Ignatian spirituality can be summed up in the few paragraphs at the beginning of the Exercises: sharing life with God and responding in gratitude to God’s gifts in freedom.
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Feeding Our Pain
There 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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Virtual Evening of Reflection – 8 December
What is God’s Will?
