Grounding + Becoming
A Spacious Wisdom Cross-Pollination
There is a current between knowing and unknowing. It will carry you.
Each one is troubled by the ultimate questions. And no one else’s answer can satisfy the hunger in your heart. The beauty of great questions is how they dwell differently in each mind, how they root deeper than all the surface chatter and image. How they continually disturb. Your deep questions grow quickly restless in the artificial clay of received opinion or stagnant thought, and if you avoid this disturbance and try to quell these questions, it will cost you all your peace of mind. Sooner or later, every one of us must come to our contemplative longing and gain either the courage, the recklessness to begin our own contemplative journey.
-John O’Donohue
Visible Contradictions + Knowing How To Know
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
What if losing one’s way from time to time is the way?
Has anything ever been more clear? Anything more obscure?
We Are Here: Knowing + Creating as the Integral Springs Forth
We have talked at length about what’s been shifting in our sense of the world and our inklings about why we are here. In this offering, there’s a deepening.
Faint Outlines of a New Possibility
We are alive, friends. It’s painful and exquisite. There is so much darkness. It’s real. Death is all around us. Unaddressed pain has mixed with power and fragmented us, but we are encircled by a Love that is permeating the darkness in the most creative ways.
Staying Present to the Absence
Like Amanda and Graham, I’m meeting this next moment with a heart as open as I can muster, taking a step into the unfamiliar.
Living the Questions: A Wisdom Collage
For much of my life, I sought answers before I began walking. I'm finding practices that support me in living into the questions.
Is There A Place?
Love is always a flow. How do we hold these powerful forces with care? Is there a place one can go to say "I'm on fire..."
Contemplative Curiosity: Cynthia Bourgeault on Surrender
Here’s a 10-minute unconventional spiritual practice - bringing curiosity and presence to a Cynthia Bourgeault quote about bracing and surrender.
Love says “Please Come Home”
How do we move in freedom, agency, and sacred responsibility — freedom for the flourishing of all beings and Love itself?
Life is Hard: A Spiritual Director on Holding Complexities + Contradictions
We all have had or will have moments like these when we get news that changes life as we knew it and leaves us wondering if we even really savored our “before.”
Contemplative Curiosity: Teilhard de Chardin on Truth Setting the World Ablaze
What do you notice and wonder as you read this Pierre Teilhard de Chardin quote on the way truth spreads.