The Fixed Image Atrophies Longing
To Become Free Is Everything
The Mental Prison
We Take upon Ourselves the Images Made for Us
The Prison of Guilt
The Prison of Shame
The Prison of Belief
The Wildness of Celtic Spirituality
The Lightness and Imagination of the Fairy World
Your Vision Is Your Home
The Haunted Room in the Mind
The Shelter of Continuity
Certainty Freezes the Mind
The Danger of the Name
The Limit as Invitation to the Beyond
The Delicate Art of Freeing Yourself
The True Shelter of the Porous Wall
To Roll the Stone off the Heart
If You Cannot Forgive, You Are Still in Jail
Our Secret Companions and Liberators
Soul-Shrine
The Angel of Attraction and Inspiration
The Angel as Artist of Your Transfiguration
A Blessing
4. Suffering as the Dark Valley of Broken Belonging
Our Secret Kinship with the Darkness
Light Has Many Faces—the Dark Has One
The Bright Night of the Earth
The Tree as Artist of Belonging
The Suffering of Self-exile
Why Are You So Vulnerable?
The Pain of Exposure
The Loss of Spontaneity
The Point of Equilibrium
When You Stand in the Place of Pain, You Are No One
Suffering’s Slow Teachings
The Sense of Meaning Vanishes
“When Sorrows Come, They Come Not Single Spies, but in Battalions”
The New Window Is Open
How Is the Hard-Earned Harvest Divided?
I Know, I Alone
The Mystery of Transfiguration
Behind the Dark a Subtle Brightening
Sweet Honey from Old Failures
Unconscious Suffering
Suffering in the Animal Kingdom
Suffering Brings Compassion
Illness: The Land of Desolation
To Befriend the Places of Pain
The Vulnerability and Mystery of the Body
No Wound Is Ever Silent
Celtic Recognition and Blessing of the Dark Side
To Help Carry the Suffering of an Other
Out of the Winter a New Spring
A Blessing
5. Prayer: A Bridge Between Longing and Belonging
The Human Body Gathered in Prayer Configures Our Need
Prayer Is Ancient Longing
Prayer Is the Narrative of the Soul
Prayer and the Desire to Survive
A Prayer Is Never Wasted
In Prayer We Learn to See with the Eyes of the Soul
The Deepest Prayer Happens Silently in Our Nature
The Prayer of Being
What Is It That Prays in Us?
Prayer and Wonder: The Art of Real Presence
Wonder Awakens Us to the Magic of the World
Wonder Invites Mystery to Come Closer
You Cannot Step Outside Your Life
Amidst the Unknown, Prayer Builds an Inner Shelter
The Celtic Art of Approaching the Unknown and Nature
Nature Is Always Wrapped in Seamless Prayer
Prayer: A Clearance in the Thicket of Thought
Prayer and the Voices of Longing
Mystical Prayer as a Mosaic of Presence
