It’s the time of year when we are drawn to look back at highlights and challenges of the current year and consider new directions for the year to come. But New Year’s resolutions, no matter how well-intentioned, are often like seeds planted in soil that cannot sustain their growth. Here’s a question suggested by the term well-intentioned:How can we do well not only at creating intentions for new directions but at remaining intentional about them daily throughout 2015? For two years I have practiced what I call “the three rememberings” to help me keep clear about my intentions and to re-set them daily. After years of feeling like I was not very good at breathing meditation because my mind jus
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A Dominican friar born in 1260 has become an important spiritual companion to me. Meister Eckhart was an enormously popular preacher in the fourteenth century. He got in trouble with the Church for speaking as a mystic--that is, for blurring the line between where the soul ends and God begins. Mystics live with a sense of union with God, and so such blurred language comes naturally to them. Here is a Meister Eckhart quote that gives me something I can use all year long from this season in which we celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth: “What good is it for me if Mary gave birth to the Son of God 1400 years ago and I don't give birth to God's son in my person and my culture and my times?”
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