Remember:
The classic language of the stages of the spiritual journey is being validated by many developmental psychologists and integral studies in our time. (Sunday)
Life itself�and Scripture too�is always three steps forward and two steps backward. (Monday)
Many historians, philosophers, and spiritual teachers see that history itself is going through an evolution of consciousness.
(Tuesday)
A regular practice of meditation reinforces the neural pathways that bring wholeness, while also refusing to strengthen any toxic, self-destructive, or negative pathways. Without such changing of our “software” real and sustained change is almost impossible. (Wednesday)
When the external life and the inner life are working together, we always have beauty, symmetry, and actual transformation of persons—lives and actions that inherently sparkle and heal, in part because they can integrate the negativity of failure, sin, and rejection. (Thursday)
It seems to me that true progress, or the hope that we have, is not naively optimistic, a straight line, or without regression. Spiritual progress, ironically, develops through tragedy and through falling. (Friday)
Rest: Labyrinth Labyrinths are found in different forms on all continents, within many cultures and mythologies, carved or painted on ancient cave and church walls, and set in floors at sacred sites such as Gothic cathedrals. These circular paths are a way of learning and praying through movement instead of through thinking. Labyrinths seem to have emerged from the collective unconscious, representing a clear path to center, to the Divine. A classical labyrinth has seven cycles, one for each stage of life.
Find a labyrinth (on the ground or printed on paper) for your feet or fingers to traverse in the company of God’s presence. Walk the labyrinth as if on pilgrimage, but without a goal beyond the experience of walking itself. Step consciously and slowly, allowing the Divine to guide and teach. Let the walk teach its own lessons. There is no one correct message. The turning circuits of a labyrinth remind us that life is change and transformation and repentance (i.e. metanoia or turning around).
Gateway to Silence:
Show me your ways; teach me your paths.
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