If you've spent any time exploring contemplative spirituality, you've probably run into this question: what's the real difference between Christian mysticism and Christianity? Are they two separate things, or is mysticism just one flavor inside a much bigger tradition?

The short answer is that Chri...

"It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without first entering into ourselves." St. Teresa of Avila

You may long to experience the peace of God or feel the warmth of Love within yourself. You might wonder what it's like to abide in the deep ground of your own being. Or maybe you're seekin...

There's a hunger that doesn't go away.

You may have felt it sitting in a pew, or walking away from one for the last time. It's the sense that something real is possible — something beyond information about God, beyond correct belief, beyond doing the right things in the right order. Something that ...