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
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!
What My Soul Already Knows: A Simple Poetry Practice for a Dark Night of the Soul
A simple practice for drawing on wisdom beyond rational thinking and pro-con lists — a steadying anchor for the disorientation of a dark night of the soul.
Something Else: A Spiritual Director on Holding Obscurity & Disorientation
If you are in the thick of obscurity, holding inner tensions that cannot be resolved, or feeling disconnected from your deepest knowing. If you are disoriented as the sands of time flow through the hourglass at a dizzying pace and there is no rest in sight, please open to this possibility with me: a taste of something else may also be very nearby.
What if losing one’s way from time to time is the way?
Has anything ever been more clear? Anything more obscure?
Glimmering Landscape Time: Spacious Spiritual Practices to Hold Us in Spiritual Disorientation
How do I hold this _______________? (chaos, obscurity, grief, disorientation, restlessness, dark night of the soul…)
Collaging Signals From a Creative Universe
When the gut-punch of anguish hit me hard, I collaged wisdom that called to me in songs and images.
Listening for Inner Wisdom Artfully
Here’s a spiritual practice to support you in listening for inner wisdom by creating and being curious with wisdom collages.
A night of complete undoing
John O’Donohue give us words for the obscurity we encounter in our dark nights of the soul. I take comfort in knowing I’m not the only one to encounter this location in my spiritual geography.
Logos + Mythos
What voices guide you in darkness and complexity? Michael Meade is one of the voices I turn to. He calls me into stories.
The Dark Night, Songs for Our Seasons of Obscurity
This playlist is not designed to tell you that your dark night of the soul is not so bad, nor is it an attempt to coax you out of your dark night.