Tag: Search for God

• The Beatnik and the Monk

  A penniless pilgrim who lived in the worlds of the Beatnik and the monk reflects on their common spiritual hunger and his ten-year search for God.

  RMDell’Orfano

  November 2, 2026

  Autobio

  1960s, Beat Generation, Beatniks, Christian mysticism, counterculture, Faith and Spirituality, Jack Kerouac, Monasticism, New Oxford Review, Path Perilous, pilgrimage, Religious Experience, Search for God, spiritual hunger, Spiritual Quest, Thomas Merton

• Traumatic Grace:

  rue transformation rarely arrives gently. A reflection on suffering, metanoia, and the breaking of the ego through traumatic grace.

  RMDell’Orfano

  June 2, 2026

  Autobio

  Abraham Lincoln, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Character Transformation, Christian mysticism, Conversion, Dark Night of the Soul, Ego Death, Faith and Reason, Ignatius of Loyola, Leo Tolstoy, near-death experience, Oscar Wilde, Path Perilous, personal growth, Psychological Transformation, Religious Experience, Search for God, spiritual awakening, St. Francis of Assisi, Suffering, TBorn Again, Theology, Transformation Through Suffering, William James