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
- Time 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,
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
Our Anchor Statement
We believe
In the God of Love.
We are called to live in, with and as Love.
In Stillness and Silence we honour Truth.
Our hearts, open to all whom we encounter.
We live, as Anam Cara,
Simply in Grace and Peace.
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 contemplation 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."
Meister Eckhart