The following is a meditation on Song of Songs 1:2b It is a common experience that the person who is in love finds the delight of love to be similar to being intoxicated. The strong emotions of love pull us...

Faith is not merely the giving of assent to ideas and figures. Faith is an encounter with a person, an encounter in which two people open themselves up to each other. Through faith, I open myself up to the Lord...

To find the inner garden, one must seek a silent heart. The door to the garden is opened in silence, a silence that is not forced, not solely an act of the will. Rather, it is a silence received as...

One of the key features of holy people is that they have generally mastered the art of living well. It is not that their lives lack suffering or distress, but rather it seems that they possess a deep wisdom which...

There is a critique of truth that is common these days. Often the idea of objective truth gets associated with a kind of pride and egotism in which I hold my positions to be superior to others. Tied to this...

she is seen, the man lends his eyes to a gaze in which she is known, having grown on romance, his heart longs like the stirring of the rhythms in the song, the man moves and is moved, she returns...

There is a silence bursting forth from the middle of things, like the name of a beloved that sings exchanged between the lover and his inner thoughts cherished like a treasure this nameless presence is nearer to you than your...

One feature that is common to most of the major world religions is an intuition that the interior life of the human person is fundamentally disordered. In contrast to many modern philosophies which seem to view human desire as a...

I see the beloved’s face everywhere the play and pattern of the day, it’s motion written a particular way in the fabric of leaves its movement from particular into the freedom of unpredictable exchanges how they dance in the wind,...