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• 1 Treasure Hunting The Child & The Heart - 1 hour 15 minutes
• 2 Looking That I May See - 1 hour 15 minutes
• 3 “Finder” - A New Home Imagination and Image - 1 hour 15 minutes
• 4 Tomb Prayer Inner Rest - 1 hour
• 5 The Power of Beauty The Now & the Quest - 1 hour
About Contemplative Ways of Being 2
“I imagine the first retreat in this series, Contemplative Ways to Being 1, “Be1”, in a classroom context – all of the participants behind desks, taking copious notes, reading, studying, struggling with new language and concepts, puzzled frowns, occasional flashes of enlightenment.
Contemplative Ways to Being, “Be2” however is very different, more like “field work,” the participants dressed as if for an African safari – hat, binoculars, camera, notepad braced for experiencing and experimenting.
I remember being in an open van at night in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. The African game ranger turned and whispered, “Don’t move and don’t speak. Look and listen.” Seconds later a huge bull elephant walked right past us, close enough to touch – an intense and thrilling moment.
Although this retreat invites a more “hands on” practical approach, it requires even more, the presence of our “inner child,” who is always intrigued, excited, interested, and game for the new and mysterious.
If we can take the ranger’s words to heart, “keeping still and quiet, listening and looking,” and letting our inner child out; there is no telling who will walk past us or even in us during this retreat.”
- Michael Fish, OSB. CAM
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