![]() ![]() I invite you to consider ways beyond your contemplative practice in which you can live more simply. As we let go of thought and sensation, we reconnect with our Center, our source of abundance and enoughness. ![]() We discover simplicity in the silence of contemplative prayer. ![]() When Francis said, after kissing the leper, “I left the world,” he was saying that he was giving up on the usual payoffs, constraints, and rewards of business-as-usual and was choosing to live in the largest Kingdom of all. ( Wednesday)įrancis and Clare’s agenda for justice was the most foundational and undercutting of all others: a very simple lifestyle outside the system of production and consumption (the real meaning of the vow of poverty), plus a conscious identification with the marginalized of society (the communion of saints pushed to its outer edge). Francis simply lived differently and let his lifestyle be his sermon. ( Tuesday)įranciscan prophecy is at its core “soft prophecy”-which is often the hardest of all! Rather than criticize and shame the evils of his time, St. When you live in pure consciousness, letting the naked being of all of reality touch your own naked being, then you experience foundational participation. “This amazing simplification comes when we ‘center down,’ when life is lived with singleness of eye, from a holy Center where the breath and stillness of Eternity are heavy upon us and we are wholly yielded to. I believe that a kind of second simplicity is the very goal of mature adulthood and mature religion. Summary: Sunday, October 2-Friday, October 7, 2016 ![]()
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