Even though it has been quiet here at the Abbey for a while there has been lots of movement behind the scenes. This past season has been extraordinarily full as I have brought some work to a close and made more space for the Abbey to blossom forth in the coming year. Starting at the [...]
Posts in the Abbey Online Classes category
Threshold Spaces
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It is a time of many endings and beginnings for me, a threshold space as I let go and embrace again and again. I am making more room for my Abbey work and that fills my heart with joy. I find it is requiring a lot of energy for me to be fully present, so [...]
Abbey Dreaming and Blossoming
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For see, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the song of the dove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines, in bloom, give forth fragrance. Arise, my beloved, [...]
Way of the Monk, Path of the Artist
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I recently completed an incredible journey. I had the privilege of accompanying a group of extraordinarily thoughtful monks and artist from across the US and around the world in an online journey through my newest writing project Way of the Monk, Path of the Artist. When I first announced this class session in late November, [...]
Way of Monk & Eyes of Heart Online Classes are FULL for Spring Session (Sign up now for Lenten E-Course!)
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The Spring Session of Way of the Monk, Path of the Artist filled up a couple of weeks ago and now Eyes of the Heart: Photography as a Contemplative Practice is also FULL for the Spring Session dates. Summer dates are still available – both classes are offered July 19-August 29, 2010 and are currently [...]
50% for Haiti
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It takes clear space, contemplative time, and good conversation to engage complex problems. Busyness, consumerism, and their accompanying anxiety can easily become substitutes for meaning and clarity of purpose, numbing our capacity to act responsively. Allowing us to be selectively attentive and to filter out complexity and ambiguity, they foster superficial thinking, short-term perspectives, and [...]
"Give Me a Word" (and Abbey New Year Giveaway)
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In ancient times, wise men and women fled out into the desert to find a place where they could be fully present to God and to their own inner struggles at work within them. The desert became a place to enter into the refiner's fire and be stripped down to one's holy essence. The desert [...]
Abbey Online Classes – Update
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**Click here for an Advent and Winter Solstice Visual Meditation** ***** Click link above for more details The WINTER & SPRING SESSIONS for * Way of the Monk, Path of the Artist* are now both FULL Space is Available for the SUMMER SESSION – * July 19-August 29, 2010 * Click link above for more [...]
