“Prayer being only attention in its pure form and studies being a form of gymnastics of the attention, each school exercise should be a refraction of spiritual life.” — Simone Weil
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Archive for the ‘Devotion’ Category
September 8, 2009
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Disintegration and Meditation
By Robert Minto in Community, Devotion, MotivationThis morning was the first instance of our experiment in communal prayer and meditation. I almost forgot! But one of the brotherhood stopped by my room a little before 10:00 to ask if we could do it together. Already the value of accountability is making itself known.
It was strange feeling our way toward an appropriate [...]
Tags: accountability, brother, brotherhood, chaff, communal prayer, discipline, disintegration, god, green leaf, implantation, prayer and meditation, prosperity, psalm 1, unity
September 7, 2009
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Monastic Devotion In a Dorm? (Pt. 2)
By Robert Minto in Community, DevotionBlowing me away with their enthusiasm, my guys agreed to the devotional experiment. We talked about the regularity a community of practice will help us maintain in our spiritual discipline, and we talked about the difficult, sometimes dry, task of meditation. Then we watched the Can I Have Your Number? clip as an example of [...]
Tags: brotherhood, communal prayer, Devotion, god, meditation, psalm, psalter, rich blessing, spirit, spiritual discipline, tight community
