Our Vision

Living in Humility, Peace and Love

Our vision is living a contemplative life of peace,

with love being the lens through which we engage in life.

With God at the centre, all of life flows in graceful harmony.

Extending this into the world through a love filled heart

and a peaceful presence creating a loving community.

Contemplation is opening awareness to a word, a phrase or something that is arising. By placing it in the context of our God-awareness we surrender to the Divine vision allowing our experience of the word, phrase or situation to transform us ..

Our Focus is...

Humility Love Grace
Stillness Acceptance Trusting God

Silence Allowing Compassion

Simplicity Forgiving Sacred Space

Accountability Kindness Presence

" Perfect abandonment to the will of God in the things you cannot control, and perfect obedience to Him in everything that depends on your own volition."

Thomas Merton

Meditation

Meditation is...

A date with God
Time out
Time to tune into the universal matrix of love
To breathe
The default back drop for the day
Allowing the Divine to guide the day
Surrendering All to God

Who we are...

We are everyone.

Everyone one is born a contemplative until life gets in the way.

The Circle of Contemplative Living offers a place for those called , or who choose, to settle more deeply within

through meditation and contemplative practices.

Contemplative living is rich in its reverence for silence

and stillness, time in nature, living simply and

relationship with your God.

“Contemplation is, above all
awareness of the reality of the Love of God”
Thomas Merton

We believe

There is One God, the God of Love.

Our calling is to live in, with, and as Love.

We honour the Values and Guiding Principles.

We are here to live simply on the planet

The Guiding Principles

The Beatitudes

The Eightfold Noble Path

“Stillness is the only thing in this world

that has no form.

But then it is not of this world”

Eckhart Tolle

Our Community

A Contemplative treasures and ponders truth. Developing and growing a contemplative soul—a soul that honours the invisible; a soul that responds rather than reacts and a

soul that is anchored in a bigger picture of life than

just the urgent, pressing and hurry.

Our activism is in our awareness of the power of thought.

As each thought is an energetic frequency our meditations and contemplations extend into the universe becoming part

of the energetic matrix holding the world.

Thus, despite our seemingly quiet internal world view,

we are fully active and engaged in today’s world.

As the Dutch Community De Spil say so succinctly

‘We eat together, even if it isn’t at one table

We live together, even if it isn’t in one house

We pray together, even if it isn’t in one chapel.”

"What we plant in the soil of contemplation

we shall reap in the harvest of action."