When we die before we die, we are surrendering to the Real, to union with God—now—and therefore later too.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerome-daly/support

Surrender and letting go might sound like losing, but they are actually about accessing a deeper sense of the self, which is already whole and filled with abundant life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerome-daly/support

Contemplation brings us to the place of divine fullness where hope lives. Contemplation is living in a unity that produces a deep non-rational, and calm hope. God allows us to bring “on earth what is in heaven” every time we can allow, receive, and forgive the conflicts of the moment and sit in some degree of contentment. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerome-daly/support

Sooner or later, life is going to lead us into the belly of the beast, into a situation that we can’t fix, can’t control, and can’t explain or understand. That’s where transformation most quickly happens. That’s when we’re uniquely in the hands of God.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerome-daly/support

If you try to understand God’s grace by any ledger of merit, you will never understand it.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerome-daly/support

The pattern of transformation, the pattern that connects, is always death transformed, not death avoided. The universal spiritual pattern is death and resurrection; loss and renewal. But, we want one without the other.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerome-daly/support

If we cannot find some way to transform our wounds into sacred wounds, we will become cynical, negative, or bitter. This might be the major task of religion, because we will be wounded, sooner or later. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerome-daly/support

We are obsessed by thoughts as soon as we wake up, useless chatter all day. Setting expectations are invariably disappointments and resentments waiting to happen.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerome-daly/support

If we can encounter one thing in its uniqueness, it can lead to an encounter with all of creation at the same time. The contemplative mind does not demand, is not needy, and is not easily offended.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerome-daly/support

The finite manifests the infinite. The physical is the doorway to the spiritual. All we need is right here, right now. As above, so below.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerome-daly/support