Writings

Q:  I would like to ask about the connection between Centering Prayer and Yoga Nidra. I once went on a three-day silent retreat where we did Centering Prayer three times a day…

Q: I’ve been practicing Zen meditation with a Christian group for 18 years. What is your view with respect to how Zen contemplation relates to Centering Prayer?

Q: Can someone explain using the sacred glance in Centering Prayer, instead of the sacred word?

Q: From a prisoner in minimum isolation: “I have been working on Centering Prayer. It started off easy. For about three months it was happening with no mental or physical resistance.

Q: I have a question regarding the sacred word. Before coming to Centering Prayer I had been practicing Transcendental Meditation.

Q: I have been doing Centering Prayer for about 7 years, and I have changed in positive ways that my wife, some others in the CP group, and even I, have noticed, so I know it’s “working” in some way.

I am new to Centering Prayer. I have historically meditated with a focus on the breath. I am having a difficult time not focusing on my breath throughout every Centering Prayer practice. Is this right? It doesn’t feel “silent”.

I’d like to know more about the dark night of the soul and how it differentiates from clinical depression.

I am in the process of trying to find a spiritual director. I am wondering is it usually a good idea to have a director who is more experienced or further along on the spiritual journey than you are?

We are each a precious child embraced by a larger Being, or Source, surrounded at all times even when we can’t feel it, with love and acceptance.

Each of our perceived flaws and our sufferings is held within something much larger, loving and accepting.