Meditation
Meditation
Meditation is taking time out to go within.
The aim is to develop awareness of our thinking which gifts us with the choice to go with the thought,
or choose to return to a still mind as it observes,
but does not engage with, any thought that floats by.
Meditation strengthens our ability to chose our thinking, not be led astray by it.
The Breath
The breath is constantly with us.
In and out it is the ebb and flow of life itself.
The breath touches every part of us, each cell is dependant upon interaction with it.
When we are aware of our breath we sit straighter to ensure inspiration and lungs are fully inflated ensuring our bodies receive all they can from each breath.
We can use
The breath is constantly with us.
In and out it is the ebb and flow of life itself.
The breath touches every part of us, each cell is dependant upon interaction with it.
When we are aware of our breath we sit straighter to ensure inspiration and lungs are fully inflated ensuring our bodies receive all they can from each breath.
We can use the breath as a constant reminder as the breath has a pause between inhaling and exhaling.
Pausing is essential to life.
Sacred Word
Sacred Word
Each word has a vibration, the universe is made from vibration. In fact it is said that the universe sings.
As each word or phrase has a vibration, rhythm and resonance using words consciously can change how we feel and,
thus, how we are in the world.
A Sacred word is a word that tunes into you, it can uplift and inspire you in your belief
Each word has a vibration, the universe is made from vibration. In fact it is said that the universe sings.
As each word or phrase has a vibration, rhythm and resonance using words consciously can change how we feel and,
thus, how we are in the world.
A Sacred word is a word that tunes into you, it can uplift and inspire you in your beliefs, values and principles.
When meditating, to mentally repeat your Sacred Word on the in and out breath is to maximise your time spent in silence.
Quotes on Contemplation
Celtic Daily Prayer Book
Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
Psalm 130:5-7
Isaiah 30:18
Romans 15:13.
Contemplative prayer is essentially a matter of being rather than doing. Not wanting to achieve anything or experience something. The Contemplative life is content with waiting, sometimes with patience, but leave the outcome to God. It longs but does not grasp for what is longed for. It hopes but acc
Psalm 130:5-7
Isaiah 30:18
Romans 15:13.
Contemplative prayer is essentially a matter of being rather than doing. Not wanting to achieve anything or experience something. The Contemplative life is content with waiting, sometimes with patience, but leave the outcome to God. It longs but does not grasp for what is longed for. It hopes but accepts that the fulfilment of hope lies in the mystery of God.
We learn trust filled waiting. God, I don’t know what you are doing or why you are doing what you are doing but I trust your character and I believe you are out to do good. It is a balance of familiarity and fear – trading on holy ground.
So, it’s not just about learning to wait until what we want comes our way. It is about being so widened in the waiting that it changes out wanting. God is developing in us a living relationship with himself.
He is not a genie in our lamp or a puppet on our strings to be manipulated by us when we want to conjure up his presence
Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.
Rumi
"The mystic grows out of humility of the heart and simplicity of spirit, a radical openness to the real. The mystic heart is able to abandon the f
Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.
Rumi
"The mystic grows out of humility of the heart and simplicity of spirit, a radical openness to the real. The mystic heart is able to abandon the false self, the egoic life of the deluded self."
Brother Wayne Teasdale.
No Man is an Island
Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
No Man is an Island
“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely,
no matter how much he may surround himself with people.
But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection,
to be at peace with his own loneliness,
and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship,
comes to know the invisible companionshi
“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely,
no matter how much he may surround himself with people.
But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection,
to be at peace with his own loneliness,
and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship,
comes to know the invisible companionship of God.
Such a one is alone with God in all places,
and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men,
because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome,
and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.”
Thomas Merton,