Contemplative Seeing — The Look of Love

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE involves the discipline and willingness to let the Spirit “cleanse the doors of perception,” to use William Blake’s phrase, so that when we look we see with the eyes of our heart into the heart of whom or what we see. Or Read more [...]

The Way of the Mystic 2

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

The late Carmelite monk William McNamara describes the simple awe and perceptive appreciation that is at the core of the mystic way. He writes: To engage in the natural art of contemplation is to look long and steadily, leisurely and lovingly at Read more [...]

The Categorical Imperative

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

The glory of God is the human person fully alive, and the life of the human is the vision of God. ~ St. Irenaeus of Lyons You shall lovingly accept the humanity entrusted to you! You shall be obedient to your destiny! You shall not continually try Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The art of being human is the art of being whole: wholly related to the whole of reality. The word for this exquisite human response to the manifold in the One is holiness. Far from a diminution Read more [...]

The Mystic: Susceptible to Now

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Awe is a sense for the transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery behind all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine . . . to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple; to feel in the rush of Read more [...]

Dear Mystic

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

The mystic is not a special kind of person. Every person is a special kind of mystic. ~ William McNamara Who me? Mystic? I think you have the wrong address. One of the sad if not tragic and costly losses within Read more [...]

The Joy in Meaningful Differences

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Practicing the Presence (continued) And what are we called to be present to? Well, to everything and to everyone. I should say to each thing and to each one in its own unique, precious particularity. The poet David Ignatow describes the importance Read more [...]

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