Wednesday, April 21, 2010

An excellent instruction:

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

Of course, it does take courage to do this. And perseverence.

Worth it, all the same.

Really. Trust me on this one.
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4 comments:

  1. Cathy2:07 AM

    Ellie, have you blogged anywhere on what your meditation and prayer practices consist of? If you have, could you give me the link? If you haven't, could you maybe do that? I would really like to know how you "go into yourself", or indeed "go into God".

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  2. Ellie Finlay7:43 AM

    I think maybe you've asked this before, Cathy? I apologize for not following through on that!

    I don't think I've actually blogged about it in a particularly personal way before but I may have said some things earlier on this blog about methods and techniques. I'll look.

    The idea of writing about that is somewhat daunting to contemplate. Maybe I could, as a stop gap measure, recommend a couple of books that influenced me strongly back in the early days. One is Christian Zen by William Johnston. Another is New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton.

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  3. Cathy8:58 AM

    hi Ellie, thanks for the recommended books. I haven't asked you about that before. I am very curious about what other people do re prayer and meditation.

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  4. Cathy2:40 AM

    (PS I wasn't meaning to imply that I don't know how to meditate per se - I just like to hear about what others do.)

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