“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
“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 instead of peace. But at this point it is precisely the meeting of chaos that is salutary, not snorting lines… — Martin Laird Copy Share
“The key is to move from being a victim of thoughts (the commenting, chattering mind) to being their witness (the heart’s stillness) . . . What we have observed of fear can be observed of practically any struggle with afflictive thoughts and feelings. We must move from being a victim of these thoughts to being their witness. Typically we spend… — Martin Laird Copy Share
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
