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In the Teresian tradition, this experience takes a special form. They both mean loving experiential awareness of God: not ideas in the head or on the lips, but personal living experience. ![]() Tessa Bielecki, a modern mystic, friend, and author, writes about how this type of passionate love, which she calls “spousal prayer,” is available to all-no matter what our relationship “status.”Ĭontemplation and mysticism are synonymous terms. It is like the freely radiating energy of the sun.” Though we may need to be careful about where we direct our life-force in our everyday lives, we needn’t hold back any passion we experience for divine life itself! Passion is essential to our relationship with God. Passion is the feeling of life wanting to connect with life. ![]() He writes, “Since our very being is open to begin with, it naturally resonates and wants to connect with what is greater than ourselves-the vastness of life itself. Spiritual teacher and psychologist John Welwood has written extensively about intimate human relationships as a “path of conscious love.” To engage deeply with another, we must allow the spontaneous nature of passion to bloom within us. The soul who deeply desires to remain in Christ’s holy company, and is sincerely grateful for the intimacy with him that is possible, and finds herself truly in love with this Lord who does so much for us-is the soul whom I consider to be most evolved.
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