The examen is a travel-size Ignatian retreat
The examen is a travel-size Ignatian retreat. Through it, practitioners cultivate and maintain an awareness of God's presence and activity in their midst.
— from The Air Traffic Controller (God) · G-d
In the book
Keep a daily accounting. Take a few honest minutes — two to five at first, more as you grow — to reflect deeply on how you flew and to renew your awareness of the One who saw it all anyway. This is the ancient practice of the examen, the short nightly review that cultivates a steady, living awareness of God's presence, and it has been handed down, generation to generation, around the world for exactly that purpose. Do not despair at what the accounting turns up, because repentance was built into the world before anything else — God conceived of teshuvah, of return, at the very beginning, so that a flawed creation could stand at all. — The Air Traffic Controller (God)
Also belongs to
- The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
- The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection)