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LOTUS OF THE HEART
Brian K. Wilcox, a vowed Contemplative in the Christian tradition, and Associate of Greenbough House of Prayer, offers an interspiritual work focusing on cultivating the Heart of Compassion. His book of mystical Love poetry is An Ache for Union: Poems on Oneness with God through Love. Brian integrates wisdom from the major spiritual Paths. May you always know that you are blessed!
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The presentations at this site cover a long time period. Each one represents part of an on-going Pilgrimage, and the writer's ideas, practices, and experience have changed over time. This change is the quality of any living Journey. Please read with this in mind, allowing the inner Teacher to speak to you as you need at this particular time in your own living Journey. Thanks!
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*Sacred Heart of Jesus, Stephanie Fysh, Flickr
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1Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
2Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
*New Testament. Matthew 6. ESV.
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Through Grace we can experience
a progressive de-selfing
This denial of self in Service
partly arises from nurturing selflessness in Prayer
Within this selflessness
the sense of particular self will appear and dissolve repeatedly
The self arises from the selfless Silence, the Fecund Center
therefore, trying to negate this self-sense itself is
self-centering and a denial of its rightful place
To give unselfishly, then, is to give from the Center
of the other and yourself in receptivity to the Sacred ~
Presence of you each in Oneness of Love
*Christ the Redeemer in Rio..., Carlos Eduardo, Flickr
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Grace and Peace to All
The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You
*You are welcome to contact Brian at briankwilcox@yahoo.com .
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