Rule of Life
Is there not an heretical imperative implicit in the Gospel-Tao and in our absolute amazement in awakening to the core teaching of Jesus Christ: the Kingdom of Heaven is within you-us-everywhere-everyone! Everything in the Universe is the work of this t0-the-root-coherence: from particles of possibility to the all the wonders of the Earth, from a solitary human being to the universal evolutionary hunger for connection... for coherence... and for compassion...
Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, is an invitation to build, with a radical faith and hope, intentional communities rooted in the Mystic-Abode of the Kingdom, of a "pan-sacramentalism"? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to live lives of prayer, cooperation, compassion, service, justice, simplicity, and nonviolence (a Beatitude life)? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to save Planet Earth by living in such a way that we serve all species and the re-generation of our Home? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to gender / race / and class equality, in the Divine Equality of the Personhood of All Human Beings?
Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to the inward journey of contemplative prayer, gratitude of mind, availability and vulnerability of heart, and a harmony of body, mind, and soul? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to surrender to the Holy Wisdom of the Feminine, in the Holy Mother Mary, for the conscious cultivation of the Growing Christ: our human and planetary evolution? And finally, is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, are roadmaps of the Eternal Way into a Living and Greening identification with the Christ Consciousness of the Kingdom of Heaven (within us and within everyone and everywhere)?
-- Questions for a Rule of Life
Suggested Workbooks:
Celtic Daily Prayer, Northumbria Community
Benedictine Daily Prayer, A Short Breviary
The Book of Common Prayer
Whispers From Eternity, Paramahansa Yogananda
Quantum Theology, Diarmuid O'Murchu
The Marriage of East and West, Fr. Bede Griffiths
The Future of Wisdom, Fr. Bruno Barnhart
The Wisdom Jesus, Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault
Listening for the Heartbeats of God, J. Philip Newell
Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda
Son of Man, the Mystical Path to Christ, Andrew Harvey
The Intelligence of the Cosmos, Ervin Laszlo
The Rebirthing of God, John Philip Newell
Living the Eternal Way, Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
Sacred Pleasure, Riane Eisler
Be Love Now, Ram Dass
The Return of the Mother, Andrew Harvey
The Bhagavad Gita, Ecknath Easwaran
The Tao Te Ching, Benjamin Hoff
The Mother, Sri Aurobindo
The Hope, Andrew Harvey
Paths to God, Ram Dass
Deep Life@ the intersection of the Beautiful, the Mystical, and the Personal