Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s here it’s there! Love and Suffering: A Spiritual Guide for Helpers, Healers, and Humans gets released today. That means anyone who pre-ordered the paperback will see the book in their mailbox very soon, and it is now available for ebook ordering (Amazon doesn’t allow pre-orders of ebooks, so now you can finally order one […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWith just a few weeks to go before the release of Love and Suffering, I wanted to continue exploring the theme of what it means to love this world with a wide-open heart. On the path of loving everything, it is easy to love the good stuff. Who doesn’t love the sound of the morning
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Reading Time: 9 minutesWithout a doubt, a huge inspiration for my upcoming book, Love and Suffering, is the American Franciscan priest and writer Richard Rohr. I am incredibly indebted to his body of work and that of his organization, The Center for Action and Contemplation, for deepening my understanding of Christian theology, mysticism, and contemplative practices. Rohr was
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Reading Time: 6 minutesIn my upcoming book, Love and Suffering, I make two bold claims about mystical awakening. The first claim is that the mystical experience is universal. We are put in touch with a Greater Truth that transcends religious dogma and touches something at the core and heart of every human being. There is strong evidence that
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThere comes a time when researching content for a book, where the author slowly transitions from finding new information to include, and instead finds information that simply confirms what has already been written. This happened for me in the writing of Chapter 5 in my upcoming book, Love and Suffering, as I dove into the
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