Memory and Imagination

Close your eyes and begin to see with an imagination that is beyond thought and words. C:20.2 You have no capabilities that do not serve you, because they were created to serve you. The ability to imagine is such a capability, freely and equally given to all....

The cause and effect of love joining the world

Take all the images of love set apart that you have made and extend them outside love’s doors. What difference would a world of love make to those who lock their doors upon the world? How vast the reaches where their world of love could extend once love joined the...

Love’s freedom (from the ego)

Who you are is love, and all things brought to love are seen in a new light, a light that keeps what you would learn to help you remember who you are, and in that remembrance transforms the rest, leaving you with nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to keep hidden,...

A future yet to be created

We dwell in the reality of the One Heart, creation’s birthplace, birthplace of the new. I.11 The situation of violence throughout the world, the feelings of being powerless to change anything, of being caught in deception, make me go, “No, no. I don’t want to look at...

The New You

 Become the author of your own life. Live it as you feel called to live it. D:4.24 I have been reading and re-reading Thomas Merton for over a decade, but I recently found a quote from him I’d never seen, one that describes love and its affects in a way that fits me...