Spiritual Direction - "Tickler Lists" or things to bear in mind throught the process

What's Involved in the Spiritual Direction? as far as the Process, itself, is concerned?

What's Involved in Spiritual Direction? the Director's Perspective

What's Involved in Spiritual Direction? the Directee's Perspective

What are some of the Types of Prayer Experiences?

What's Involved in Discernment?

A Listing of the Resources utilized in compiling these tickler lists

Annotated Spiritual Direction Checklist

Audio Resources for Formative Spirituality (links as gleaned from the EWTN Library)

My personal musings on nurturing the apophatic and kataphatic, which stress (in a nonpolemical fashion, also theologically and not philosophically) the importance of maintaining kataphatic practices over against any radical apophaticism,

Has this consideration interested you in exploring Spiritual Direction for your own journey? Then be sure to visit Spiritual Direction on the Internet - Heartland Center for Spirituality, where you can explore the possibility and where you can also read Phil's What is Spiritual Direction?

pax tibi,
jb

From Today's Daily Seed:

quote:

MESSAGE OF THE DAY

"Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making its honey in the hive; without humility all will be lost."
- Teresa of Avila -

Phil's comment: Humility as self-knowledge--acknowledging one's true strengths and lmitations--was fundamental to St. Teresa. How can you be more aware of these today? What "honey" do you think this brings?

johnboy's Daily Darnell:

I think is was Richard Rohr who noted that having a shadow, in the Jungian sense, was not sinful but the denial of it can be.

I suppose we could extend this to the entire inventory of how we differ from God and others and can link this to our recent thread on Gifts. Having certain Jungian inferior functions and MBTI preferences and thinking styles, or other forms of giftedness and limitedness, don't equate to sinfulness. Denying these could be sinful or not taking the time or paying attention to our psychological and spiritual growth could be sinful, too. One aspect of spiritual formation involves our pursuit of a more upright and mature conscience. We are not said to be exculpable due to our ignorance, but rather are exculpable due to any invincible ignorance. There are some shortcomings we may never overcome in this lifetime, to be sure, but may we never fail ourselves and our community by failing to attend to our own psychological self-knowledge and ongoing spiritual formation. Then, we can better be here now in love, in awareness, benevolence and truthfulness -- down to earth, the good humus where we are radically rooted

Ergo, my apologetic for Spiritual Direction.

pax tibi,
jb