Contemplative Life & Practices

If you are interested in learning more about the contemplative life and practices, we invite you to take advantage of these resources to help you get started.

Contemplative Practices Support

The program is meant to give participants an opportunity to develop a regular meditation practice while getting to know a small group of peers who are also interested in exploring the benefits of meditation and mindfulness practices. One of the challenges faced by those who take up meditation is establishing a regular routine. A group like this can be quite helpful. All of the CALM leaders—faculty, staff, and students—have participated in such groups as a way to reinforce their practice and meet kindred spirits. This free program is also open to the general public, students, educators and professionals.

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Podcasts

  • "Contemplative approach is one of inquiry into the nature of things, a scientific suspension of disbelief (and belief) in an attempt to "know" reality through direct observation by being fully present in the moment.

    -Barbezat and Bush, 2014

  • "Transformation education - understood as education the whole person by integrating the inner life and the outer life, by actualizing individual and global awakening, and by participating in compassionate communities - has become a quiet but sturdy movement that encourages the recovery and development of the academy as a liberating and capacity-building environment.

    - Parker J. Palmer, The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renew

  • "If we can deeply understand the power of our minds to both injure and benefit this world, we see that (contemplative) practice is not a luxury but an imperative. It returns us to ourselves, to our sanity, our true capacity.

    -Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

  • "The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgement, character and will.

    -William James

  • "If the universal addiction is to our own pattern of thinking - which is invariably dualistic - the primary spiritual path must be some form of contemplative practice.

    - Richard Rohr

Contemplative Exercises

Contemplative Studies Programs in the US