In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle lists the virtue of magnanimity among the moral virtues. The magnanimous man is, literally, “great-souled,” because he aspires to great and honorable things, on ...

Conventional ascetic, mystical theology is based on an affective, purgative, illumined, unitive rising of the soul to God, following paths set forth by Ss. Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Francis ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The Rev. William Wilson, a former Trappist monk who once lived in a hut as a hermit under a rule of silence, has tried many paths to spiritual enlightenment. One of his most ...

The prayer of the Christian is a communal affair. It involves the entire People of God, both in heaven and on earth. And so, no Christian ever prays alone. From the perspective of eternity, the ...

Give up the intellect for love and see in one brief moment all eternity,” said Persian Sufi master Hazrat Farid al-Din Attar (1145-1221) in his seminal work Manṭeq al-ṭayr (The Conference of the Birds ...

The ocean of gnosis (ma’rifah) has no shore,” said Persian Sufi master Hazrat Abu Hamed al-Ghazālī (1058-1111), who was so ...