“This is why most people do not stick with a contemplative discipline for very long; we have heard all sorts of talk about contemplation delivering inner peace but when we turn within to seek this peace, we meet inner chaos… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“The distinction between acquisition and discovery may seem like hairsplitting, but it is important to see that . . . the contemplative discipline of meditation, what I will call in this book contemplative practice, doesn’t acquire anything. In that sense,… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“This is why most people do not stick with a contemplative discipline for very long; we have heard all sorts of talk about contemplation… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“The key is to move from being a victim of thoughts (the commenting, chattering mind) to being their witness (the heart’s stillness) . .… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“But as important as time set aside specifically for prayer, is learning to sit when you are not sitting. By this I mean, whenever… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception. — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“Union with God is not something we acquire by a technique but the grounding truth of our lives that engenders the very search for… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“. . . there is a foundational core of what we might as well call identity that remains hidden from scrutiny’s grip and somehow… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“This watchfulness also applies to our tendency to add thought upon thought upon thought. We notice, for example, our anger and how it is… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“A helpful image to express this sort of thing is a wheel with spokes centered on a single hub. The hub of the wheel… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“Instead we experience reactive commentaries on thoughts and feelings. The ability to meet with stillness all that appears and disappears in awareness will gradually… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
