Saturday
Atlantic Contemplative Centre
Supporting the integration of contemplative practice into society in Atlantic Canada
by Jim Torbert and David Whitehorn
Looking out from the ninth floor window, my attention went first to the elaborate metal gate that marks the main entrance into the Halifax Public Gardens, a huge holiday wreath on the gate declaring the season. The gardens, an institution in Halifax since 1867, are a 16 acre oasis of calm and beauty in the midst of the busy world of the Spring Garden Road district with its shops, restaurants and hotels. It occurs to me, looking out over the gardens, that this ninth floor suite that has recently become the home of the Atlantic Contemplative Centre is, in a similar manner, a space of sanity and wakefulness in the swirling confusion of this dark age. Continue…
