
The purpose of “devotions” is not to multiply acts of devotion, but to simplify all of life down to one act of devotion.
– Father Thomas Keating
Nature & Spirit
Devotional Practices
Devotional practices like prayer, meditation, chanting, conscious breathing, serving others, sitting with nature, singing, playing music, writing, and reading devote a person’s attention in the most positive and optimistic direction: Communion.
Engagement with the greater reality and experience of the Self. It builds up the internal reserves of things like peacefulness, patience, kindness, goodness, forgiveness, joy, and love.
“Correct” theology or terminology is of negligible importance. Reality is not dependent on or nor defined by our definitions.
Jesus simplified it with saying, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.” Any and all ideas of God fall drastically short of our conscious universe’s reality and trajectory, so start with whatever your highest concept or ideal may be, and then be willing to go along for the ride of it expanding out to encompass all things.