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Brian K. Wilcox, a Chaplain, vowed Contemplative in the Christian tradition, Associate of Greenbough House of Prayer, and Postulant of the Order of St. Anthony the Great, 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!
All is Welcome Here
Living in Love beyond Beliefs
We Share One Life, We Are One Life
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Well-ordered self-love is
right and natural.
*Thomas Aquinas
The transcendence of the self is not the negation of the self. Much harm has been done by those who have not taught others differentiating between self-love and selfishness, for truly self-love does not will to be selfish, but to be self-giving to others and self.
Loving others more does not mean that I love myself less, but that I love myself more. In loving myself, I learn to love others more, while in loving others, I learn to love myself more. Truly, there is no absolute difference between loving others or loving myself, for love is a single love.
This pertains to Prayer. Indeed, in Praying, I find that not only am I loving others, I am loving myself. A high motive for Prayer is to Pray without differentiating love, whether of Grace, of others, or self. Again, love is a single love, which is to say that love is love.
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We are each a lovely, pure Rose, in the Garden of Grace.
*White Rose, Pyogenes..., Flickr
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*You can contact Brian at briankwilcox@yahoo.com. Please keep in mind, when reading from this site, that teachings cover an extended period of years and, therefore, reflect changes over that time.
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