The Bradley Blog

Love, which might be called the attraction of all things toward all things, is a universal language and underlying energy that keeps showing itself despite our best efforts to resist it. It is so simple that it is hard to teach in words, yet we all know it when we see it. –- Richard Rohr

Monday Morning Meditation Minute When the spiritual intellect is stripped of its obsessions, it discovers the Holy Spirit, and in the same way, the Spirit initiates it into the fullness of its hopes.  -Thalassios the Libyan 

Amma Syncletica beckons us into true freedom that does not rely on external things for inner happiness and peace.

Here is a prayer by St. Thomas Aquinas that can help us as we seek to know the Creator more intimately.

A God Who Dances. An excerpt from Holy Play: The Joyful Adventure of Unleashing Your Divine Purpose by Rv. Kirk Byron Jones

quotes from Amma Syncletica about learning to kindle the divine fire within ourselves and prayer

What do you need to let go of to fully know God?

House Cleaning of the Mind Thomas Merton quote about cleaning out the mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our mind

A certain brother inquired of Abbot Pastor, saying: “What shall I do? I lose my nerve when I am sitting alone at prayer in my cell?” The elder said to him: “Despise no one, condemn no one, rebuke no one, God will give you peace and your meditation will be undisturbed.” 

My Heart May be Pure Towards All – Amma Sarah