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Posture of Heart, III
Toward Understanding Contemplatives and Their Lives
| Practice: Inclining the Ear A SERIES FOR SPRIRITUAL LEADERSHIP FROM The Center |
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An Exerpt from Posture of Heart III: Practice ~ Inclining the Ear:
To be sure, our practice is no on-again, off-again thing... no mere technique, for we are listening at the heart ~ listening with the heart ~ to the indwelling Spirit of Truth that guides, teaches, heals, restores...
... our practice is a steady, growing awareness, a waiting, eventually a walking out or performing of a more subtle awakened state than is usual. And despite what may seem as the harshest of trials, whatever we receive of God is of the sweetest, most consoling order. For He says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hear my voice and open the door, I will come in." (Rev. 3:20)
So our practice is about hearing that Voice.
To be sure, our practice is no on-again, off-again thing... no mere technique, for we are listening at the heart ~ listening with the heart ~ to the indwelling Spirit of Truth that guides, teaches, heals, restores...
... our practice is a steady, growing awareness, a waiting, eventually a walking out or performing of a more subtle awakened state than is usual. And despite what may seem as the harshest of trials, whatever we receive of God is of the sweetest, most consoling order. For He says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hear my voice and open the door, I will come in." (Rev. 3:20)
So our practice is about hearing that Voice.
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