I’m currently listening to Cynthia Bourgeault’s, “The Wisdom Way of Knowing,” on Scribd. I have read Matthew Fox’s “Original Blessing” five or six years ago.. I receive an email from Matthew Fox everyday so all of this is part of that journey too.
Social Conscience and Inner Awakening


“In my own efforts to live the gospel I have found that it is virtually impossible to reach and sustain that level of ‘perfect love’ without a practice of contemplative prayer . . .. Ordinary awareness always eventually betrays itself and returns to its usual postures of self-defense and self-justification . . .. Only from the level of spiritual awareness do you see and trust that all is held in the divine Mercy . . .. You can begin to reach out to the world with the same wonderful, generous vulnerability that we see in Christ.”
– Cynthia Bourgeault, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, 17.
Introduction
My teaching career has focused much of its energy on helping students to develop compassionate action in society: encouraging our school community to see beyond its primary achievement orientation and care for others. However, for all the growth of social conscience education at…
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