Beloved Community Resources
The following list is a short collection of books, articles, and other resources on Beloved Community. Articles The Beloved Community: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Prescription for a Healthy Society, by Jeff ...
Saying Grace
Saying Grace Many cultures have a beautiful tradition of saying a prayer before or after a meal, expressing gratitude and asking for blessing. If we are accustomed to praying over our ...
Living in the Flow
Living in the Flow By being observant of your own emotional life and perhaps getting in touch with your own unconscious, you might become aware of your psychological blockages to experiencing ...
Establishing Healthy Conscious Moral Norms
Establishing Healthy Conscious Moral Norms Violence often begins by making the “other” less-than, dehumanized, demoralized, or demonized in some way. The violence occurring in the United States, from the capital insurrection, ...
Body Prayer
Body Prayer If the incarnation is true and we are the Body of Christ, then prayer is fully experienced when it is also from the bottom up, when we “pray from ...
The Sacred Heart
The Sacred Heart As a Catholic, Richard Rohr was often puzzled by the continued return to heart imagery among our saints and in our art. The “Sacred Heart” of Jesus and ...
Tonglen
How to Practice Tonglen Pema Chödrön teaches us “sending and taking,” an ancient Buddhist practice to awaken compassion. With each in-breath, we take in others’ pain. With each out-breath, we send them ...
Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina Lectio divina is a contemplative way to read short passages of sacred text. With the first reading, listen with your heart’s ear for a phrase or word that stands out for you. ...
Being a Mirror of Goodness: An Intention for the New Year
Being a Mirror of Goodness: An Intention for the New Year Adapted from: Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN Tara Brach, PhD The ...
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer This is what you are to do. Lift your heart up to the Lord with a gentle stirring of love, desiring him for his own sake and not for ...
Sacred Activism
Sacred activism is a call for each of us to dedicate our full selves — mind, body, and heart — to the liberation of every creature on this planet. Not only ...
God as Flow
by Richard Rohr (2016) Why is it that Christian believers hardly ever think of, or talk about, God as Trinity—and yet Eastern and Western mystics reveal a strongly Trinitarian vocabulary and ...
Pace e Bene Nonviolence Conference Aug 2020
Video 1 Online Zoom Webinar Conference (7 hrs) Video 2 Nonviolence Training Soul Force: From Spirit To Street (3 hrs) Click here to see other available training Video 3 Third Harmony ...
Meditation and Contemplation
I find it useful to use scientific language when talking about meditation today. I like to remind people that we all have three brains—our reptilian brain which is about 440 million ...
Levels of Consciousness and the Enneagram
By Deborah Ooten and Beth O’Hara – August 2010 First published in The Enneagram Journal, Vol. 2, 2010, a peer-reviewed publication of the International Enneagram Association. “What Gurdjieff calls ‘Objective science’ uses the musical analogy ...
