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• Balance Is Key To The Optimum Physique

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  As Purposeful Primitives we understand the need practice two distinct types of training: progressive resistance for the external musculature and cardiovascular training for the internal plumbing. In addition, training need be coordinated with a distinct eating regimen that amplifies instead of retards results. We know ...
  3 days ago

• Proving A Point Isn’t The Point

  
  View From a New Vrindaban Ridge — Authority: 123
  “Sometimes a university student or professor tries to study these transcendental literary works and attempts to put forth a critical analysis from the mundane view, with an end to receiving degrees like a Ph.D. Such realization is certainly different from that of Ramananda Raya. If one actually wants to take a Ph.D. ...
  5 days ago

• The Promise of Paradox

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 496
  The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life By Parker J. Palmer, with an introduction by Henri Nouwen San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008 Review by Carl McColman Parker Palmer’s first book almost didn’t happen. As he explains in the new introduction to The Promise of Paradox ...
  5 days ago

• St. Charles Challenges

  
  a minor friar — Authority: 131
  As they do each year, the words of St. Charles Borromeo hit me hard in the Office of Readings this morning: One priest [or anyone] may wish to lead a good, holy life, as he knows he should. He may wish to be chaste and to reflect heavenly virtues in the way he lives. Yet he does not resolve to use suitable means, ...
  1 week ago

• why write like this?

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  I pause to ponder this ‘blogging.’ Sometimes I feel empty or plain lazy, but I push myself to write each day. My aim, simply, is to reflect on my lived experience and to make sense of the ordinary events of every day. But why publish them , you ask? To reveal how one person tries to live an ethically sound ...
  1 week ago

• why write?

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  Ever so often I pause to ponder the purpose of this blog. Occasionally I’m too empty to write, but as a practice I post each day. My aim, put simply, is to reflect on my lived experience and to make sense of the ordinary events of every day. But why publish them , you ask? I do so to show how one person tries to ...
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• Christ-Mysticism (Fray Luis de León)

  
  Perpetual Anticipation — Authority: 127
  I stumbled across this quote as I was doing research for a comparative Spanish literature essay ( in Spanish ) of Fray Luis de Leon (15th century Spanish Mystic) and Thomas Merton (20th century English Mystic). Fray Luis de León spoke of the theopathic life in terms of Christ-mysticism: “The very Spirit of Christ ...
  1 week ago

• Learning to Trust Process

  
  BlissChick — Authority: 513
  One of the greatest lessons I am learning right now is how much it matters that you do what you were meant to do. You say, " What!? Hasnt that been the point of Blisschick all along? " Well, yes, it has been, but that doesnt mean I am any better at understanding it than anyone else. I want to be clear here, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grateful

  
  Country Contemplative — Authority: 106
  Last night I was walking back to my car from Friedsam Library at St. Bonaventure University and I as I looked into the night I could barely make out the familiar lines of Merton’s Heart. It’s a clearing on the mountainside just south of the campus of St. Bonaventure University. As I looked up and thought of ...
  2 weeks ago

• We soon forgot we were recording a CD

  
  On An Overgrown Path — Authority: 469
  Avoiding what Wilhelm Furtwängler decried as the hoar frost of musical routine has become something of a personal preoccupation. After Bach, Golijov, Piazzolla and Vivaldi from the Britten Sinfonia in Norwich on Sunday we travelled to London on Monday for a rare opportunity to hear an evening of Gavin Bryars ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Scopos of the Monk

  
  a minor friar — Authority: 131
  One of our many kind parishioners passes her issues of First Things on to me after she reads them. Thanks to her I can watch the ALCS while I read beautiful things like this letter of Thomas Merton to a sixth grader who wrote to ask him about monastic life: Monks are people who seek to devote all their time to ...
  3 weeks ago

• How to Experience More by Doing Less

  
  Escape Adulthood with Kim & Jason — Authority: 424
  photo by limonada We live in a culture of more. We are conditioned to want more stuff, sure, but also to be involved in more and more activities. Our schedules are bursting with everything from meetings, extracurriculars, and charitable activities to projects, practices, and parties of all kinds, including ...
  3 weeks ago

• Quail Hollow Ranch

  
  Blogtrotter — Authority: 418
  Quail Hollow preserves an 1866 homestead, a ranch bought by the Lane family of "Sunset: The Magazine of Western Living" fame. Any Californian of a certain age, at least a native, should recognize it. Full of trimmed horticultured beauty. Food, excursions, and an elegant, yet outdoor lifestyle of patios, barbeques, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fern River Resort

  
  Blogtrotter — Authority: 418
  On Highway 9, five miles north of Santa Cruz, by a bend in the San Lorenzo River, nestles this venerable motor court. About a dozen cabins stand, painted rust-barn red, under a canopy of redwoods. Willows, elms, and sycamores grow along the bank. A third of a mile up the road, a few minutes walk brings you to Henry ...
  3 weeks ago

• So It Goes

  
  movement, movement — Authority: 103
  Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude of the contemplative experience awakens a tragic anguish and opens many questions in the depths of the heart like wounds that cannot stop bleeding. For every gain in deep ...
  5 weeks ago

• 6 questions we always ask — Mattox Roesch, author

  
  Minnesota Reads — Authority: 493
  Sure we’ve had an actual member of The Replacements and Charles Baxter (who needs no other disclaimer) answer our six questions. We’ve had friends and bloggers and authors we’ve grown to admire answer the questions. But I can say that without a doubt, posting Mattox Roesch’s answers fills me with a kind of ...
  8 weeks ago

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