Is mindfulness practice leading to an increase of love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control? Then the Holy Spirit is at work in it (Gal 5: 22–23).
“For the Christian mystics meditation on the historical life of Christ prepares us for the encounter with the living Christ, the discovery that it is not us who try to hold him in mind but he who has always been mindful of us. It is the experience of being known and loved by another. In that love we discover who we are.”
― Living With The Mind of Christ: Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality
― Living With The Mind of Christ: Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality
“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“We do not wake up in this world calm and serene, having the luxury of choosing to act or not act. We wake up crying, on fire with desire, with madness. What we do with that madness is our spirituality.”
― The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality
― The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality
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