Mindfulness is a way of observing and taking in what is going on before responding to it. It’s a way of bearing witness to your life and participating in it with balance and harmony.
The Present Moment
Mindfulness teaches us to release dwelling on the past and instead begin paying attention to the present moment. It gives us space and time to feel all of our emotions, thoughts, and sensations. To look toward the good things happening because we have opened our heart, mind, and physical eyes to see the abundance of good that surrounds us and to trust in it.
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will know complete peace and freedom.
When we have a balanced inner life we learn to understand ourselves. Recognizing our faults but not judging with our usual intensity will relax and open our heart, which then lets wisdom and compassion be how we react to the people and situations that affect us.
Instead of anger or jealousy, insight and loving kindness can become the way for us, our default mode. This leads to creating a deep calmness within.
Process Thought is a systematic approach to the world, to life, and to humanity that seeks to integrate what we know and what we feel into a single united narrative of interrelationship and becoming. Building upon the insight that the world is dynamic and interrelated, Process Thought articulates that every creature exists in relationship to each other and to all creation, and that everything is always becoming and self-determining within the parameters of what has gone before and what is being determined by the rest of existence.
Process Thought is a response to the challenge posed by the dynamic and interrelated nature of reality — making sense of what exists, given our knowledge of relativity theory, quantum physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, cognitive science and neurology, psychology, history, religion, and literature.
Process Theology
Within Process Philosophy, clergy and philosophical theologians have applied these insights to the questions raised by religion, and in Process Theology they advanced tremendous possibilities for a faithfulness that is honest, open, spiritually rich, and ethically engaged in the world. Rather than enforcing a strict division of natural and supernatural, Process Theology affirms that we live in a universe that is a single integrated reality. Everything is in dynamic relationship with everything else.
God & Us Together
God is not timeless and separate from creation. God is the One who offers us the best possible options for our own future and who lures us to attain the divine goals of maximal relationship, engagement, love, compassion, and justice. God uses persuasive, persistent power to allow us to intuit the optimal choice for each of us and empowers us to be able to make that choice, should we so choose. And, God works in and through creation to respond affirmatively to the divine lure uniquely appropriate to it at that precise moment. God does not break the rules, but works to create a cosmos in which flourishing is possible.
Who Knows Anyhow? 