The following resources can assist you on your spiritual journey.
Richard F. Groves
Sacred Art of Living Center
This center for spiritual studies established in 1997 in Bend, OR by Richard & Mary Groves is a resource for the education and training of professional and lay caregivers; sponsors of the internationally-acclaimed Sacred Art of Living & Dying workshop-retreat series; and creators of The Anamcara Project, “the art, science and practice of sacred relationship.”
Father Richard Rohr
Center for Action and Contemplation
The Center for Action and Contemplation seeks to empower individuals to live out their sacred soul tasks in service to the world through educational programs and resources. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Center is the home of the Living School for Action and Contemplation founded by Fr. Richard Rohr, a globally recognized ecumenical teacher bearing witness to the universal awakening within Christian mysticism and the Perennial Tradition. He is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province.
Parker J. Palmer
Center for Courage & Renewal
The center’s mission is to create a more just, compassionate and healthy world by nurturing personal and professional integrity and the courage to act on it. The center and its growing global network of Courage & Renewal Facilitators help people lead lives of courage and integrity by offering online resources, in-person retreats and personal/professional development programs. Our Facilitators lead programs using the Circle of Trust® approach based on the work of author and activist Parker J. Palmer.
Father Thomas Keating
Contemplative Outreach
This organization was founded by Fr. Thomas Keating, one of the principal architects and teachers of the Christian contemplative prayer movement. Contemplative Outreach is a manifestation of his longtime desire to contribute to the recovery of the contemplative dimension of Christianity.
Pema Chodron
The Pema Chödrön Foundation
Beloved Buddhist teacher, author, nun and mother Pema Chödrön has inspired millions of people from around the world who have been touched by her example and message of practicing peace in these turbulent times. Visit her website to learn about Pema’s work, teachings, and publications, and the vision of the Pema Chödrön Foundation.
Brother David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness.org
A Network for Grateful Living provides education and support for the practice of grateful living as a global ethic, inspired by the teachings of Br. David Steindl-Rast and colleagues. Gratefulness – the full response to a given moment and all it contains – is a universal practice that fosters personal transformation, cross-cultural understanding, interfaith dialogue, intergenerational respect, nonviolent conflict resolution, and ecological sustainability.
Roshi Joan Halifax
Roshi Joan Halifax
Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D., is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in medical anthropology in 1973 and has lectured on the subject of death and dying at many academic institutions and medical centers around the world. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Visual Anthropology, was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Ethnobotany at Harvard University, and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress.
WISDOM FROM TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability
and that it may take a very long time.
And so I think it is with you;
your ideas mature gradually let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
