A Blog by LeRoy Friesen
O Lover, Over the past year I have been increasingly beset by questions regarding the implications of non-dualism for contemplative practice and awareness. I understand non-dualism as affirming that Reality in its very largest...
[Hall, Meredith, Beneficence. Boston: Godine, 2020.] O Lover, The setting for my reading highlight of this summer (but half spent) is largely restricted to a Maine farmstead across decades beginning in the early 1930s....
[Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958), Towards the Unknown Region (1907) & A Sea Symphony (1910); each is an orchestral/choral setting of text from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (“Darest Thou Now O Soul” & “Passage...
[“We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time” (T. S. Eliot,...
[Bourgeault, Cynthia, Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2024. Bourgeault, OSB, is an Episcopalian priest, theologian, and practitioner of centering prayer; Keating, OCSO (d. 2018), was a Roman...
O Lover, On this fair June day I am pondering the macro meaning of “gravity,” that force causing an object to be drawn toward the center of another object possessing mass. It is a...
[“‘ . . .My servant Moses, / He is faithful in all my household; / With him I speak mouth to mouth, / Even openly, and not in dark sayings, / And he beholds...
[“For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to...
O Lover, In recent weeks my spouse and I have watched several documentaries focusing on the deep history of planet Earth, particularly the last four billion years when it included some form of life....
[“Though the fig tree should not blossom / And there be no fruit on the vines, / Though the yield of the olive should fail / And the fields produce no food, / Though...