Grounding + Becoming
A Soulspace Wisdom Cross-Pollination
Listen for what is already in you, the seed within reaching toward sunlight
What I need for the terrain ahead seems to be mysteriously sprinkled around me days, weeks, months, or even years before I need it. There is an inexplicable resonance—a knowing that doesn’t conform to my linear timeline and context.
I recognize it.
Wisdom cannot be known with the mind alone; it animates within me. I am known, and I know.
And still, I forget.
Practices draw me back to the center. I return. I drink deeply. I remember.
There is spaciousness inside to keep going.
Follow what draws you.
Notice what stirs.
What is recognition like for you?
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A Spacious Audio Meditation: Bruno Barnhart + “Home” by Sara Bareilles
A spacious audio meditation pairing Bruno Barnhart and Sara Bareilles’ “Home.” An invitation to presence and deep heart listening.
And here it is, unbound
A whole world exists on the underside, showing us something different, hidden in the dark. An audio poetry reading by Kirsten Harrison.
This is No Passing Fancy
A voice from without calls to something within. Doubts and fears are stilled by a presence my heart recognizes—a presence that knows me intimately and is not at all troubled by my humanity.
Recognition: An Invitation to Now
Gratitude surges as I realize the only word my lips remember is the only key that unlocks this door.
Presents: An Audio Reading of Norman MacCaig’s Poem
“This is a call from your soul, awakening your life to new possibilities.” —John O’Donohue. Listen to Kirsten read Norman MacCaig’s poem, Presents.
Two: A Meditation by Bruno Barnhart
A Wisdom Collage: Bruno Barnhart meditation read-aloud by Kirsten, an evocative image, and a cover of Everyday Life by Audrey Assad and Moda Spira. What catches your heart’s eye?
The Maximum: An Audio Meditation
A contemplative audio invitation to the now. Kirsten Harrison reads “The Maximum” from Bruno Barnhart’s Second Simplicity as a spacious practice for presence and deep listening.
There Was No Contradiction in His Soul
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin bore in his being what others might consider contradictions. Though it was not easy, he tuned the instrument of his life to the bass note sounding within him.
Somewhere Along the Way
Somewhere along the way, I started relating to myself compassionately. And it shows.
Montana Sky Time, An Audio Reading
Kirsten reads Montana Sky Time by Rob Baker in a voice memo.
Wisdom: A Knowing in Darkness
An Audio Read-Aloud on Wisdom Knowing. Listen from the inside, noticing what is stirred in sensation, feeling, and/or cognition.
Silence: Words + Portals
What a gift it is when another human describes inner experiences with granularity. In this collection, there are words about silence and portals to enter.
What Strength It Takes To Bear A Slow Untangling
I walk in the shoes of others’ wisdom—lyrics my heart recognizes, but cannot presently find words for. One song at a time, circulation is being restored.
Can’t go under it. Can’t go over it. We’ve got to go through it.
My heart is magnetized to keep returning to the felt sense of these paradoxes, and so I do, over and over. In twenty-minute increments of silence, I climb into dissonance and breathe with it.
Visible Contradictions
It’s sometimes in the most unusual places that you actually discover the gift of the Beautiful. I always think that contradiction is what makes a person interesting. -John O’Donohue
Re-Member Yourself: A Note From Kirsten + A Poem About Holding Obscurity
When obscurity rises, and
you cannot see where to step next,
your gaze turns ever-so-slightly outward.
Oh, how humbling it is to be human!