Quotations and an Examen for Making Our Contemplative Practice Real

This weekend I had the honor of giving the closing talk at the 2025 Centering Prayer Summit, sponsored by Closer Than Breath. Since my talk was the last talk of the conference, I was asked to speak on how to bring the wisdom and energy of the conference into our daily lives. I called my talk “Making It Real: Integrating Mystical Wisdom into the Spiritual Practice of our Daily Lives” and I explored how even when we have “mountaintop experiences” during Centering Prayer (or any other spiritual pra...