To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise (Dostoevsky)
Category Archives: knowing
How enormous I, and you, are
What occurs to me more and more often is how enormous I am. How much power I have in my own little world. How much potential I have that I myself do not even recognize and I am not aware of. More and more, it astounds me how enormous my power is. My youngest sisterContinue reading “How enormous I, and you, are”
Neil’s Emmanuel Prayer for Neil
My Sweet and All-Merciful Lover, By Your freely-given grace that has seen me through all things, and always will, I will pour out what You have filled my heart with, in the staggering certainty of faith. When the anxious, fearful, and ashamed Neil rises up in me today, as he surely will, fill me withContinue reading “Neil’s Emmanuel Prayer for Neil”
Suffering demands a fix. We lie to ourselves
Every act you have performed to alleviate suffering in the world amounts to sacrificing something of yourself.
“Blessings” are horrendous and offensive. Descartes
Comparison is the fuel of the ego engine.
Spiritual Journey Nonsense (Richard Rohr)
Those calming, wise people… they speak by *listening*
Feel with Neil 