Hidden Treasure - Sacred Time and the Search for Meaning

Sacred Time and the Search for Meaning by Gary Eberle Before time became commodified-before there were clocks and the schedules they engendered-we humans operated according to the subtle seasons of the days and seasons. Gary Eberle's study of what was lost when time came to be measured draws on philosophers from Aristotle to Heidegger and on theorists from Jung to Foucault to understand our culture of efficiency. This is one of those books that surprises you by showing you how little you know about something you took to be quite familiar.

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Hidden Treasure - Way of the Pilgrim

The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way translated by Olga Savin This is the little book that Franny clings to throughout her doomed date with Lane in the J.D. Salinger classic Franny and Zooey, which is likely how most people came to know about it after 1961. But this classic of Orthodox Christian spirituality is truly timeless: it's the account of the life of a pilgrim who wanders the vast Russian countryside sometime in the late nineteenth century, a pack on his back, reciting the Jesus prayer as he goes.

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The Unitive Way and the Future of Christianity: A Discussion with Cynthia Bourgeault

Last time Cynthia was in our office, she and her editor, Dave O'Neal, had an interesting conversation about centering prayer, the future of Christianity, her book The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, and much more. Please enjoy these videos from her visit.

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An Exploration of Different Kinds of Love

The following excerpt is from The Power of Divine Eros: The Illuminating Force of Love in Everyday Life By A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson This exploration will help reveal how you experience the opposition or conflict between the selfless giving of love and the passionate wanting of lusty desire. Spend fifteen to twenty minutes considering these questions. If you are doing this exercise alone, you may want to write them down in a journal and respond in writing. How do you experience the selfless giving of love? How do you experience passionate wanting? How do you experience the relationship of the two in your life, in your experience? How do you experience the opposition, the conflict, or the disharmony between the sweet, giving, "spiritual " love on the one hand, and the wanting, the desire, the passion and intensity on the other? If you are doing the practice with others, you can take turns asking one another these questions and being present for each other as the responses arise. After everyone has finished responding, have a dis ­cussion to see what you have discovered. What were the commonalities and differences? Exploring what came up for each person and what the common threads were can give you a deeper perception about this issue, adding more insight, more illumination, to your experience. This is an emotional exploration, a felt exploration, not an intellectual one. You are not offering theories about the opposition of these forces. You are remembering and describing your actual feelings: "I feel this way . . . I feel that way . . . " You can look into any part of your life, but as you explore those feelings, you might move from incidents or feelings from the past into more of how it is in the present moment. As you see the patterns in your life that relate to conflict or opposition between these two forces, you will begin to be aware of things in the moment that you can include in your inquiry. More Books on the Diamond Approach

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