Mystical Journeys Around the Sun (Monday’s post-practice post, that’s mostly about the links) January 31, 2022
Posted by ajoyfulpractice in Books, Changing Perspectives, Healing Stories, Life, Meditation, Movies, Mysticism, One Hoop, Philosophy, Vipassana, Wisdom, Writing, Yoga.Tags: Contemplation, Fred Bahnson, inspiration, Jeremy Seifert, pilgrimage, Thomas Merton
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Happy (Lunar) New Year’s Eve!
This post-practice post for Monday, January 31st. You can request an audio recording of Monday’s practice via a comment below or (for a slightly faster reply) you can email me at myra (at) ajoyfulpractice.com.
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“We’re all on a journey. We’re all going somewhere.”
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“Our task now is to learn that if we can voyage to the ends of the earth, and there find ourselves in the stranger who most differs from ourselves, we will have made a fruitful pilgrimage. This is why pilgrimage is necessary, in some shape or other. Mere sitting at home and meditating on the Divine presence is not enough for our time. We have to come to the end of a long journey and see that the stranger we meet there is no other than ourselves.”
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– quoted from the Emergence Magazine documentary On The Road With Thomas Merton, by Jeremy Seifert and Fred Bahnson, based on Woods, Shore, Desert: A Notebook, May 1968, by Thomas Merton
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Click here for last year’s post inspired by Thomas Merton.
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This YouTube link will take you to the short documentary referenced above.
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