Spiritual or mystical experiences come in many forms. They can manifest in anyone, anywhere, at any time. A deep inner desire for personal change is often the result. But a spiritual experience may be as simple as the poetic beauty in the misty morning breeze or the gentle whisper of the Divine in the sway of the trees. It may be intimate and subtle, or an all-encompassing sense of personal connection to the living God of universal love.
the journey to God is a deep within slow train coming thing I am not among the folks who have experienced a profound moment — or maybe a few minutes or more — of the living God emerging seemingly out of nowhere and whisking them off to the seventh heavens, albeit for a brief visit. […]
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“We are all people walking around shining like the sun.” – Thomas Merton. There is a beautiful and yet strangely ironic tale told by the modern mystic Thomas Merton. He was away for a day from his cloistered existence as a hermit Trappist monk—They’re seriously hardcore isolationists, those Trappist fellas—Out and about he had ventured,
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