An Open Ground

Most, if not all, my writing for the foreseeable future will now be back at The Mercy Blog.

[R]adical negation and the deliberate use of unlike likenesses will characterize our apophatic speech… the language of unknowing.

Like sight, knowledge depends on an element of duality.

The desire for something deeper in life, for a meaning that seems to be elusive or absent, is a precious opportunity.

If we are to speak of God as he is, then, we need to check what we say as often as possible against the touchstone of our experience of living towards holy encounter… God in Godself is beyond not just our language but our minds.

I have written much here about acceptance – including particularly Tara Brach’s concept of radical acceptance – and it seems to me one of the keystones of any contemplative practice.

Grace?

Now is the only moment we will ever know.

In the west today, we are very interested in what consciousness (our field of awareness) can reveal when focused on the external world.

“It is the first thing any one has to learn in order to live,” Henry Miller wrote in comparing the art of living to dance, driven by rhythm into which the dancer must relax.