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12/06/2009: Advent 09

The season comes around again for simple, quiet beginnings. For Christians this is the start of a new year, at least in the soul realm – a time of doing the deep heart’s work of recovering our “original face” before we were born. If one finds their way to what my sister Ann calls “the mythos gate” * and learns…

10/25/2009: A Vow of Conversation

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Some time ago I had the joy of spending a few days of retreat in Thomas Merton’s hermitage at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. I could hardly believe I was actually there sitting at his Shaker desk, looking out his window at the very sky he had seen, the trees, the deer and birds. All of a sudden those writings on…