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Welcome to Care of the Soul

Posted on March 28, 2012 by admin in Uncategorized

Welcome to Care of the Soul, a ministry of Spiritual Direction and Pastoral Care in Dallas, Texas. This site is currently under construction. Please check back soon!

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Our Featured Mystic

Our current featured mystic is Fr. Anthony DeMello (known to all as Tony). A Jesuit priest and psychotherapist, DeMello was the director of the Sadhana Institute of Pastoral Counseling near Poona, India, until his death in 1987. His writings appeal to a wide audience - persons of all faiths and those seeking to live life authentically and abundantly. His life's work may be summed up as follows: he aimed simply to teach people HOW TO PRAY, how to WAKE UP AND LIVE. As a culture and a people, we are in desperate need to wake up and live our lives authentically and with integrity.

"Most people, he maintained, are asleep. They need to wake up, open up their eyes, see what is real, both inside and outside of themselves. The greatest human gift is to be aware, to be in touch with oneself, one's body, mind, feelings, thoughts, sensations.

Here are some of his typical challenges: "Come home yourself!
Come back to your senses! Do you hear that bird sing?
How can you hear the song and not hear the singer?
How can you see the wave and not see the ocean?
How can you see the dance and not see the dancer?'"
~ quote from www.demello.org

Check out Fr. DeMello's writings, and be inspired to wake up to your mystery and discover your unique path.

All Paths Lead to God

"All paths lead to God." ~ Meister Eckhart

"Humans often argue, even go to war, over whose path to God is correct. But Eckhart says: Slow down. Breathe. Don't judge. You take your path, and let others take their path. They will all lead to God. What, though, carries us beyond tribalism, beyond egocentricity, which creates those competitive, restrictive "My God is better than your God" conflicts? Eckhart says "transformed knowledge." Transformed knowledge comes with meditation, with learning to let go and let be. We must do some inner work to rid ourselves of outer teaching that preach division and exclusion and competition." ~ Fr. Matthew Fox, Christian Mystics

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