Surrendering

Surrendering

Surrender is the discovery that we are in a river of love and that we float without having to do anything. —David Benner, Surrender to Love   Father Richard Rohr considers how surrendering is simply accepting the reality that we are not in control:  If we cannot...
Life in Harmony with Nature: The Quiet Wisdom of Masanobu Fukuoka

Life in Harmony with Nature: The Quiet Wisdom of Masanobu Fukuoka

For our June positive news, we are sharing  the following from Excellence Reporter. “The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” In a world obsessed with growth, speed, and control, Masanobu Fukuoka...
When Life listens to our inner truth

When Life listens to our inner truth

Have you ever noticed that Life listens to us, but not always in the way we expect? It perceives what’s behind our words, our intentions and even our actions. It’s not what we say on the surface that she hears; it’s the energy and deep beliefs that...
Change Through Relationship

Change Through Relationship

In this interview for the Daily Meditations, Sikh activist and author Valarie Kaur places love at the center of our ability to bring about wholeness in a divided world: What does it mean to return to a kind of wholeness where the way that we love informs what we do in...
The Spirituality of Letting Go

The Spirituality of Letting Go

Fr Richard Rohr, Center for Action and Contemplation God* asks only that you get out of God’s way and let God be God in you. – Meister Eckhart, sermon on 1 John 4:9    Father Richard describes the spiritual discipline of detachment as the practice of...