How To Retreat (with advice from a 7-year-old)
Once again I saw divinity in this humble, stumbling way—not by escaping my life but diving deeper into it.
Once again I saw divinity in this humble, stumbling way—not by escaping my life but diving deeper into it.
This morning I stumbled on some contrary advice from Teresa of Avila, that light-hearted, contrarian mystic. Don’t try to still the mind and create a contrived state of recollection, she chides. Such attempts are likely to backfire.