Spiritual Spice #12 Practicing the Presence - Brother Lawrence 6:25

Background music is Salve Festa Dies performed by Benedictine monks
of Abbe En Calcat, and the Boys Choir of L'Alumnat.

Practicing the Presence is...

The pure loving gaze that finds God everywhere.

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection (1605-1691)

Finding God in all things.

Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

Seeing through exterior things, and seeing God in them.

Thomas Merton (1916-1968)

Looking deeply at life
as it is
in the here and now.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Awareness
absorbed and amazed.

Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Seeing God in everything and everything in God
with complete extraordinary clearness.

Marie of the Incarnation (1599-1672)

Be still.
Look.
Listen.
Be present.
Say or think "I AM" and add nothing to it.

Eckhart Tolle

Audio

The eyes of my soul were opened, and I discerned the fullness of God, in which I understood the whole world, here and beyond the sea...everything.
My soul was brimming over with wonder and cried in a loud voice "The whole world is full of God!"

Angela of Foligno (1248-1309)

Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the Lord is in this place,
and I did not know it. ...How awesome is this place!"

Genesis 28:16,17

What do we learn from Jacob's experience? Our material lives...are linear, chronological, sensible. But there exists another level, a level in which there is no before and after, only the eternal present...Now. And we are able to experience an indelible moment. God was in this place and we did not know it!

Rabbi Mark H. Levin

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