How are contemplation and meditation linked? Which is more important? How do you approach one from the vantage of the other? In our time, these two gifts of prayer are often conflated and confused by ...

The Contemplative Arts, Learning and Meditation (CALM) Center seeks to integrate secular contemplative practices into how we at the University of Colorado work, teach, learn and live. Our mission is ...

The first time University of Virginia alumnus Jeff Walker meditated, it was on Grounds. More than four decades later, the site of his first meditation is home to the Contemplative Sciences Center, ...

Prayer is a mystery. Perhaps because, whatever else it may be, prayer is communion with the living God who is, above all else, a mystery. Sadly, one great mystery of prayer is the impoverished ...

Next week, a host of wellness groups will guide the community in meditative opportunities to celebrate “The Power of the Pause” during the first ever Contemplation by Design Week. The inauguration of ...

A version of this story appeared in the Dec 15-28, 2017 print issue under the headline: Breathe in, breathe out. As a nursing major, Hannah Henjum has more than her share of stress. So, when one of ...

Before author Fruehwirth became Guardian (head) of the Order of Julian of Norwich, an order of Anglican contemplatives, he was the groundskeeper. Rather like Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat ...

From the Greek philosopher Plato to the Buddha to modern psychology forefathers William James and Wilhelm Wundt, the value of contemplation as a means of fostering well-being and wisdom has been known ...

In a few months I will be completing nine years of writing for “Mystic Mantra”. These columns are written as much for my own spiritual awakening and benefit as, hopefully, for that of the readers.