“There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen. Eventually, we nearly all take a reluctant stroll down the boulevard of broken dreams. If you’ve stumbled into this unwelcome place, comrades, take heart, it might just be the best thing that has ever happened to you. For above all, this is […]
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I was born on the cusp of dawn in a wild Irish forest near the edge of a deep-water lake, and to the deep water in a wild forest on the cusp of dawn, I surely shall return. In the interim—let’s just say—it’s been one-hell-of a spiritual ride. I’ve lingered an hour of two on
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“The name of God is mercy,” so says the current Pope, who is seriously big on the mercy thing. Just in case you are wondering, I am a self-confessed, practicing Catholic. Although, given my various misfit mystic musings on this blog and elsewhere, there would be more than a few among my Catholic brethren who
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Spiritual illness or brokenness is all pervasive in our world, and it was ever thus. To a large degree, this goes unchallenged and most often undetected. Its symptoms, in my experience, ultimately boil down to the self-centered ego in its multiple manifestations, going on the rampage. Inspired by the killer line, “broken people heal broken
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