About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

To Be Moved from Our Depths

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to the Excitement (continued) Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. ~ Abraham Heschel In addition to our inborn inclination for delight, excitement signals the felt sparkle of existence itself. Listening to the excitement means Read more [...]

Delighting in the Nod of God

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Listening to the Excitement (continued) I don't know Who -- or what -- put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone --or Something --and from that hour I was certain that Read more [...]

Listening Loudly: The Doorway to Delight

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to the Excitement (continued) If things created are so full of loveliness, how resplendent with beauty must be the One who made them! ~ St. Anthony of Padua If we leave our assumptions and measuring sticks for what is meaningful behind, Read more [...]

Listening to the Excitement

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

For lack of attention, a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. ~ Evelyn Underhill When I was a young boy growing up in Seattle, nothing thrilled my brothers, sisters and me more than the possibility each winter of snow and, heavens willing, Read more [...]

Facing the Boredom that Hides the Face of Despair and Death

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to Boredom (continued) If we can’t face death, we’ll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. ~ Maya Lin Courage is Fear that has said its prayers. ~ Karle Read more [...]

The Fear of Death

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to Boredom (continued) "When death comes to find you, may it find you ALIVE." -~ African Proverb The third fear associated with unexcavated boredom is the fear of one’s mortality. Mortality understood not as some abstract dimension of Read more [...]

Of Cookies, Cancer, and Significant Living

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to Boredom (continued) Life is significant because it is LIFE, because without it nothing would be, because we didn’t do anything to obtain or deserve it, and because we can serve it by being witnesses and bearers of it. We do this Read more [...]

The Fear of an Insignificant Life

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to Boredom (continued) Related to the fear of exploring the inner self that is required for healthy, soulful living, is the suspicion that lurks just beneath the surface of many bored person’s lives, namely, that the lives they are now Read more [...]

Self-Exploration: The Gateway to Significant Living

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to Boredom (continued) It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who we are. We face surprises. And disappointments. The crucial fact is that we are different from anybody we know and admire.... It takes all one's courage to be the Read more [...]

The Fear of Self-Exploration

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to Boredom (continued) "We cannot become ourselves unless we know ourselves." ~ Thomas Merton ~ First, there is the fear of self-exploration. The work meant by this hyphenated word goes by many names these days: inner work, the journey Read more [...]

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