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Islamic Heart Work
Like a poem. A gift from the heart of Omid Safi. Whose written word set fire to my own heart: In a cool mountain night, I put on a few pieces of wood on the fire, and stood there watching … Continue reading
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Whenever Two or Three…
More and more I am impressed with how Jewish was Jesus, how Jewish was the thinking of the early assembly of disciples: Wrestling with their memories of the living Jesus and their experiences of the Risen Christ – in the … Continue reading
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Heart Work
As the Rabbis put it (Berakot 29b): Prayer which has become so set that it no longer permits of creative newness, has ceased to be devotional. Isaiah 43.19 records these words of Yahweh: I am about to do a new … Continue reading
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Taking Everything to Heart
Who burns with the bliss And suffers the sorrow Of every creature Within his own heart, Making his own Each bliss and each sorrow: Him I hold highest Of all the saints. Bagavad Gita
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Why do the protesters keep saying “Allahu Akbar”?
A beautiful discussion at the website, LIBYA 17th February 2011, starts with the question above and an answer by CanadianLibyan who wrote: The words “Allahu akbar” have, unfortunately, acquired a sinister connotation. All they mean is “God is great” or … Continue reading
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Veneration of the Name
Think of the importance of “naming”. Of what a name means. How we rely on that as way of referring to someone or something. As a means of “calling” or “being called”. Veneration of “Ha-Shem” (The Name) is already a … Continue reading
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Mary treasured all these things in her heart
Remembrance. Pondering in depth. Recounting for oneself the salient moments where Holy Mystery has visited us, blessing or perhaps wounding us to our core. Over and over Luke’s Gospel points to this powerful and necessary task. Mary’s task and our … Continue reading
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Were not our hearts burning within us
The numinous speaks to our hearts through story, events, sacred writing, sacred icons, though holy people and holy places, but also through what seem to be ordinary events, events which suddenly, mysteriously, disclose the transcendent in our midst. And having … Continue reading
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Liturgy of the Heart
This is a link to a wonderful post by Macrina Walker which summarizes a talk she went to back when she was still a Cistercian nun. The presenter was another Cistercian, Andre Louf, who died last month. He spent his … Continue reading
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Coming attractions
The poem whose title inspired this blog. This blog is about seeking the inner heart. In Orthodoxy it’s called Hesychasm. The practice is thought to predate even Christianity since many Eastern Traditions speak of the Heart as the Abode of … Continue reading
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Heart Streams in Dry Land 