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The Contemplative Path unpacks ancient spiritual texts and applies them to the challenges of modern life. Unlock a deeper level of meaning and spiritual growth. contemplativepath.substack.com
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Tending the Whole Garden: A Contemplative Path Talk on Balance (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit contemplativepath.substack.com This talk explores balance not as the absence of chaos, but as the capacity to hold multiple parts of life — professional, personal, physical, spiritual — without letting one dominate. Recorded during a season of major upheaval — a cross-country move, a career transition, total instability — it traces how spiritual grounding, more than certainty in any …
Something New Is Sprouting: A Lectio Divina on Isaiah 48:6-7 (opens the original)
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Old expectations have a way of drowning out the quiet, new thing trying to emerge. In this Lectio Divina practice on Isaiah 48:6-7, you'll sit with the same short passage three times, letting a word or image surface a little more with each round. A time of open prayer follows, then space to simply rest and receive. You’ll now find this audio meditation on my Insight Timer page . Press play when you're ready to loosen your grip on what you thought you already knew — and notice what's sprouting in
The Prayer of Recollection: Where Teresa of Ávila Meets Pratyahara (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit contemplativepath.substack.com Trace the prayer of recollection from Osuna's Third Spiritual Alphabet — the text Teresa of Ávila's uncle gave her — through to yoga's chitta vrittis and pratyahara. You'll withdraw from the senses, settle into stillness, and rest in God's presence, then journal what surfaces.
The Wild Goose and the Ego (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit contemplativepath.substack.com Celtic monks pictured the Holy Spirit not as a gentle dove but as a wild goose — loud, untamed, and just as likely to surprise or contradict you as comfort you. You'll sit with that image alongside a decades-old newsroom memory of wind as a sign of the Spirit, then move to harder ground: how to catch your own ego dressed up as devotion, and ask honestly…
Who Sits at the Throne of Your Heart? (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit contemplativepath.substack.com In this contemplative talk, I explore Mary’s Magnificat — “My soul exalts the Lord” — as a mirror for our own hidden thrones of ego, ambition, and control. Contemplate how humility, not achievement, is the doorway to God’s presence, and consider a moment of stillness at your own point vierge . A gentle, grounding sit for anyone navigating grief, restless…
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