A Sense of Significant Being ~ A Life-Line

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: "It takes three things to attain a sense of significant being: God A Soul and a Moment. And the three are always there. Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy." Abraham Joshua Heschel ♣ ARE YOU INTERESTED Read more [...]

Tenebrae – Clinging to a Laughable Conviction

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Wednesday of Holy Week Tenebrae, Latin for "darkness" or "Shadows"1 There are not many ways to God, but only one, and it lies through the depth of a person’s own soul, when he leaves his false self behind,* and is stripped, and alone like the Read more [...]

Gandhi on Prayer ~ A Life-Line

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ~ Mahatma Gandhi BE GOOD MEDICINE ~ Dan Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Speaks of the Soul

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

One day Brother Weeps was teaching when he said, "The life of the soul is counterintuitive, certainly countercultural. The soul is meant for wise divesting." "What does that mean?" said a young man. "I don't understand." "There is no greater Read more [...]

Soul Making

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

It takes three things to attain a sense of significant being: God A Soul And a Moment. And the three are always here. (Abraham J. Heschel, Insecurity of Freedom, 84) There is a word that has made a comeback the last dozen years or so. Maybe Read more [...]

A Hole in the Soul

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Because, in one sense, people’s lives are so much busier today than, say, fifty years ago, because there are not only so many things to do but so many seemingly good things to do, we might not see another more telling situation, namely, that as civilization Read more [...]

The Soul’s Reach

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Thursday of the 3rd Week of Lent I began this piece on March 12th, so today’s reflection was spawned by Psalm 42 from Monday’s liturgy. It gives voice to that deep inclination within the human person called longing or yearning. It is one of my Read more [...]

Going Down into the Swamplands

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood-- A lord of nature weeping to a tree, I live between the heron and the wren, Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den. ~ Theodore Read more [...]

Simplicity and the Soul’s Task

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Daniel J. Miller

Simplicity is a counter-cultural practice. Never in the history of humankind have the subtle and not-so-subtle forces of culture been more at odds with a spirituality of simplicity. In this regard, the symbol of American culture is the man or woman at Read more [...]

Silence: The Soil of the Soul

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Daniel J. Miller

It begins and ends in silence. It begins and ends in the silence of God. It begins in the dark silence of God moving over the dark face of the waters. It ends in the bright silence of the empty tomb and the bright face of the angelic gardener. Then it Read more [...]

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