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A SEEKER’S
RESOURCE
FOR Listen
SPIRITUAL
DIRECTION

APRIL 2019 VOLUME 13 ISSUE 2

REMEMBER YOURSELF

As a child growing up in Brussels, I attended a Catho- massive stained glassed windows on every edge, and
lic school connected with (and right across the street enraptured by the Gregorian chants emanating from
from) the Brussels Basilica, the fifth largest Church the Nave. But more than any of these, I recall being
in the world, and a vast, cavernous edifice, where we entranced and overcome with deep feelings of con-
often went to pray. nection and longing, and being permeated by what
I would later describe as my first visceral sense of
One of my earliest and most powerful religious mem- immanence and transcendence. I felt in deep commu-
ories was walking through its majestic interiors, nion with a force much larger and greater than myself.
and being awed by the sheer size, hypnotized by the And yet, ‘it’ and I were inseparable and indistinguish-
aroma of the incense, wowed by the beauty of the able one from the other at the same time.

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Recalling Your True Essence 1 (After “The Little Boy lost” by William Blake) - Matt Whitney