Life-Line

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around Read more [...]

The Festival of Rain

Posted on January 31, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Last night it rained. It is raining still. My heart is glad for the earth here in Southern California to drink deeply having been parched for so long. Right outside my window, the rain and the wind are having their way with a lemon tree whose fruit hang Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Antiphon

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Antiphon [an-tuh-fon] This week’s word is ANTIPHON. For a few years now I have been working on an acoustic theology that engenders an antiphonal spirituality, spirituality here meaning simply the enactment of one’s theology in the various spheres Read more [...]

May You Listen: A Blessing

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

“Behold, I am making all things new.” (Rev. 21: 5) A New Year’s Blessing This Year-- May you listen to your life and hear it as a sacred story that you are in. May you listen to your body as to your dearest friend and honor what it Read more [...]

Where Are You?

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

"If you hallow this life you meet the living God " ~ Martin Buber In 1961, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin, the Russian Cosmonaut who was the first person to orbit earth, dropped the already frigid temperature of the Cold War era even further when 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 [...]

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 [...]

Becoming Whole

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments Read more [...]

Keeping Quiet

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Thinking of silence and listening, I was reminded yesterday of Pablo Neruda’s poem “Keeping Quiet.” Zookeeper, housekeeper, storekeeper, goalkeeper -- to be a keeper of something is to care for it, to protect it. This is a helpful reminder that Read more [...]

The Antiphons

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

• antiphon from Medieval Latin antiphōna responsive singing < Greek ( tà ) antíphōna, neuter plural of antíphōnos sounding in answer • • in Roman Catholic liturgical music, chant melody and text sung before and after a psalm verse, originally Read more [...]

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