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This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
A taste of the eternal is tangible in such moments. These creative acts connect us to our being, attaching us to something moving in the world, welcoming and holding in tension that we are open and closed, individual and relational, that we are free as will and spirit. In such moments, minutes and hours are more fluid and yet full. We feel time not
... See moreAndrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Encounters with the sacred that radiate from the core of the ordinary embolden you to cultivate stillness and simple awareness. In the midst of a world that is begging you to distract yourself, this is no easy practice. Yet you keep showing up. You are indomitable. You are thirsty for wonder.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
Last night, I slipped back into that belief myself now and then. But then I thought: “All of these doubts are accurate but they’re also an illusion. Because I am the same as Dostoyevsky and I’m the same as every lost person who writes to me and I’m the same as every stranger on the planet. I have to start, that’s all. I have to get up early and try... See more
Fwd: 'I'm Too Lazy and Mediocre to Deserve the Life I Want!'
sanctuary, in the way I think and talk about it, is this place where we gain different shapes, where we lose shape, where we compost. And how do we do that? We do it by listening, we do it by working together in ways that are probably fugitive and outside of the normative ways of producing food or money or stories. We do it by listening to our woun
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