My spiritual director and I have been working together for three years, and lately our sessions feel like we're speaking different languages about what contemplative prayer actually is. She's pushing me toward more structured practices when I feel called to something more apophatic, and I'm starting to wonder if we're fundamentally incompatible or if this tension is part of the work itself.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people committed to the same mystical path discover their understandings of that path may be irreconcilably different.
“Where Are You with Christian mysticism — the contemplative tradition?”
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