God is my ground that does not shake. God is my heart that does not ache. God is my hope ever awake. God is my trust no fall can break...

The world... is not outside of me; it’s my reflection... that I see.

The one great exercise of prayer is... To come wide awake and to place the center of myself into the center of my will and... Having done so, take this gathering of attention and surrender it wholly to my God...

"Will you accept the truth about yourself that my light has come to reveal to you? Because if you will say 'I do' – and bring me into your life – I will bring you into mine at the same time."...

My body is at war with passing time. The heart out of rhythm, let alone how to rhyme. Yet, something watches...

I don’t want to walk in my own footsteps anymore. A fog I could never see before has lifted, and now I see where these footsteps lead: nowhere...

Neither pain, nor joy are proof of (my) existence; they are but shadows of passing forms where each and all are part of an endless palette of colors realized only as they appear upon, and then disappear from the canvas of consciousness...

Life is an open-ended experience of meaning.  So, why isn’t it like that for us now?  Why isn’t this moment in my life as rich as every other moment?  It’s because...

Thank you, Father, for opening my eyes to see... I am never more blind than when all I see is who or what is to blame for my pain...

Why can’t we forgive people? Why do we remain chained to that pain? It’s because “I want to know why you did what you did,” and so I keep revisiting the offense in my mind...

I see . . . that I have been of a warring spirit, commanded by its nature – but now I see the futility of war. I see . . . that I seek to command, to control all that moves around me because . . . I have no command of anything that moves within me that makes me hostage of a will seemingly beyond my ability to contest. I see that . . . I am a thing moved, challenged by...

The following are examples of ways in which one might use the "Be Thou" prayer following one's work with any of the exercises in double attention. Each of the following eight simple prayers is to be felt by the whole of you, one by one, as you address their corresponding parts in the order shown here. As you become aware of...