"Cultivating Compassion in Community" July 2011, Vol 5.3 Listen: A Seeker's Resource for Spiritual Direction

SEEDS OF INTEREST:

Cultivating Compassion in Community --Pegge Erkeneff
Field Guide: The Fire In The Seeker --The Rev. Tilden Edwards, PhD
Field Notes: Agape Compassion --Sue Magrath, MC
Poetry: Guard Your Heart --Andrew Rudd
Art: Guard Your Heart --Claudia Campbell
Contemplative Practice
Global Resources
Ask Owl: Group Spiritual Direction

"We discover fundamental parts of ourselves in and through interacting with one another in community. When we rub up against other personalities and individuals, we learn where we are fearful, gifted, cruel, expansive, dismissive, and delightful. We discover humility in community—and radical transformation. Let me explain..." --Pegge Erkeneff

 

"The spiritual journey never ends. Contemplative tradition is very clear about that. Great mystics witness to the ongoing liberating Fire in their lives. Sometimes it warms us and we are content. Sometimes it burns hot, purging and reshaping us. Sometimes it is hidden, leaving us groping in the dark. Always it can be trusted as the ever present living Fire that, with our willingness, shapes true life in and around us." --Tilden Edwards

 

"This is our challenge and our calling—to provide such a safe place that the soul can emerge and reveal its hidden hurts, feeling confident that they will be received with gentleness, caring, and compassion." --Sue Magrath

 

"Invite your body to move into sensation. You may choose stillness, you might stand, or dance, clench and unclench your hands, move your arms, legs, belly, pelvis, shoulders, neck, hips, knees, toes. Give yourself permission to find a rhythm, and stay with it for several minutes." --Pegge Erkeneff

 

"I’m interested in spiritual direction with a group. Can you describe the difference between meeting with a group in contrast to one-on-one spiritual guidance?" --Ask Owl

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