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Podcast - Life in the Whirlwind

Join us each week for conversations on how to live deep, meaningful lives in the midst of the whirlwind of everyday life.
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Episode 2: Thomas Merton and the Question of Mystery vs Mastery

Thomas Merton is one of the most well-known spiritual guides and writers of the 20th century. In his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain , Merton tells stories of how his restlessness, passion, and deep longing lead him on his own journey to find his own life in the whirlwind. While trying to make it as a writer in New York City, Merton finds God at age 26 within the walls of The Cloisters at Fort Tryon on the upper west side of Manhattan. This second episode of our podcast was recorded on ...

Dec 26, 201630 min

Episode 1: Finding Life in the Whirlwind

Painting by Yiya Yin 2016 The season of advent offers a window of time that serves as a concentrated dose of what we humans really need throughout the entire year. Like the spaciousness of a giant pond offers a goldfish room to grow larger than it would in a small bowl, so the season of advent offers us a certain spaciousness for reflection, growing anticipation, focused attention, contemplation, and devotion to things that root us and get us living in deeper ways. It is perfectly meaningful tha...

Dec 19, 201632 min
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