Our setting: We meet monthly in a mutual accountability group. We are on Zoom across four time zones. We’ve been meeting for about a decade now, including at a common geographical space when circumstances allow. Nancy: … What do you need? Viv: I just need to feel fulfilled. How that happens can change from dayContinue reading “Mutual Accountability Group”
Category Archives: Practices
Contemplative Photography
Over the past decade, since a workshop in Contemplative Photography, I’ve continued the practice of Practicing contemplative photography allows me to explore the world from a deeper, more aware gaze. It frees me from the pressure to capture the image and, instead, receive the image that reveals itself to me, that captures me. It hasContinue reading “Contemplative Photography”
Prayer
“It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is a communication vehicle between the Creator and creation, representing dialogue in relationship. Prayer doesn’t necessarily need words; but words, songs, chants, laments, or silence can all be elements of prayer. Sometimes we pray in groups,Continue reading “Prayer”
Meditation
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.”― William Butler Yeats Meditation is a common practice among many people, includingContinue reading “Meditation”
Silence
“There is a silence into which the world can not intrude. ²There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. ³There is a sense of holiness in you the thought of sin has never touched. ⁴All this today you will remember.” – ACIM Lesson 164 Silence is a practice, andContinue reading “Silence”
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