“In our zeal to become the landlords of our own being, we cling to each achievement as a kind of verification of our self-proclaimed reality. We become the center and God somehow recedes to an invisible fringe. Others become real… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“We give God a name. We then equate God with the name we have given him, and in doing so we make ourselves, in… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“It is little wonder then that the term "religious" is often a pejorative one indicating an escapist, self-righteous, other-worldly or perhaps superstitious stance toward… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“How strange God's ways are! He calls us to a union we do not understand. He calls us to a place of encounter which… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“Compassion forms the essential bond between seeking God in meditation and all forms of social justice. For the more we are transformed in compassion,… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“Compassion is the love that recognizes and goes forth to identify with the preciousness of all that is lost and broken within ourselves and… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“We can say that, for Merton, religion refers to our deepest reality which lies hidden in our innate propensity for union with God. Our… — James Finley Copy Share Image
As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until you are… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“All that we can do with any spiritual discipline is produce within ourselves something of the silence, the humility, the detachment, the purity of… — James Finley Copy Share Image
If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things,… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“Spiritual reading, discursive meditation, and prayer prepare our hearts for contemplation. Contemplation is a state of realized oneness with God. When engaged in contemplation,… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“This disappearance, this annihilation is all a matter of appearances as seen through the eyes of the false self. The annihilation is only apparent,… — James Finley Copy Share Image
