A spiritual director from Soul Stream warns not to go it alone across the muddy waters of contemplative spirituality…
WHAT IS SPIRITUAL DIRECTION?
by Jeff ImbachThe contemplative journey is too hard and too dangerous to do alone. It’s too counter-cultural to sustain, too much of an upstream swim to make it if we have to do it on our own. Throughout the history of the church, spiritual direction has been one of the ways this need for companionship in the contemplative journey has been met. St. John of the Cross says that everyone who seeks to go deep into their souls needs a spiritual director.
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http://www.soulstream.org/index.cfm?i=2467&mid=12&id=6393&h=1
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