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

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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

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What Are You Nourishing?

Water meant to flow into the hose is dripping from the spigot, seeping into the ground underneath it. This well-irrigated little patch of Earth is incredibly fertile, but has not been cultivated with intention.

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Good Conversations as Food + Drink for the Soul

John O’Donohue said good conversations are like “food and drink for the soul.” What does this stir in you?

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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.

Kirsten Harrison 10/21/23 Kirsten Harrison 10/21/23

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.”