Author: Resa Pearson
Desert Spirituality
Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.
― Abba Poemen
Abba Zeno said, ‘If a man wants God to hear his prayer quickly, then before he prays for anything else, even his own soul, when he stands and stretches out his hands towards God, he must pray with all his heart for his enemies. Through this action God will hear everything that he asks.’
“As he was dying, Abba Benjamin taught his sons this: Do this, and you’ll be saved: Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.”
Abba Sisoes said: Seek God and not where God lives.
Without great vigilance a man does not advance in even a single virtue — Abba Ammonas
In the moments of non-awakening
In the moments of non-awakening
May I be loving, open, and aware in this moment; If I cannot be loving, open, and aware in this moment, may I be kind; If I cannot be kind, may I be nonjudgmental; If I cannot be nonjudgmental, may I not cause harm; If I cannot not cause harm, may I cause the least harm.
-Larry Yang
Friday Videos: October 15th, 2021
Basil Pennington about Merton & Centering prayer 12:16
Friday Videos: October 8th, 2021
Can God Speak Into my life? Fr. Columba 11:43
Friday Videos: October 1st, 2021
You are called to holiness Fr Columba Jordan 6:00
How the Devil uses your gifts and talents Fr Mark Mary 8:56
Friday Videos: September 24th, 2021
The Vine and the Branches, Dr. Brant Pitre 12:56
Mary with Fr. James Martin 9:58
Friday Videos: September 17th, 2021
Pioneers of the Spirit to 22:05/23:17
St. Hildegard of Bingen
The soul is the greening life force of the flesh, for the body grows and prospers through her, just as the earth becomes fruitful when it is moistened. The soul humidifies the body so it does not dry out, just like the rain which soaks into the earth.
Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.
Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.
Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.
A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.
We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.
Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.
When one’s thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one’s thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious — they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.
The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God’s gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one’s self to God’s Way.
Dharma
The way the dog trots out the front door
every morning
without a hat or an umbrella,
without any money
or the keys to her doghouse
never fails to fill the saucer of my heart
with milky admiration.
Who provides a finer example
of a life without encumbrance—
Thoreau in his curtainless hut
with a single plate, a single spoon?
Gandhi with his staff and his holy diapers?
Off she goes into the material world
with nothing but her brown coat
and her modest blue collar,
following only her wet nose,
the twin portals of her steady breathing,
followed only by the plume of her tail.
If only she did not shove the cat aside
every morning
and eat all his food
what a model of self-containment she
would be,
what a paragon of earthly detachment.
If only she were not so eager
for a rub behind the ears,
so acrobatic in her welcomes,
if only I were not her god.
-BIlly Collins