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

Kirsten Harrison 7/15/24 Kirsten Harrison 7/15/24

Contemplative Curiosity: Neil Theise on Complexity

A 10-ish minute spiritual practice -- bringing curiosity to a quote on complexity by Dr. Neil Theise.

Kirsten Harrison 1/13/24 Kirsten Harrison 1/13/24

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 12/5/23 Kirsten Harrison 12/5/23

I See You, and I’m Not Going Anywhere

Here's a poem I wrote from a grounded place -- wisdom from myself to myself. I'll keep these words as an anchor to guide my home.

Kirsten Harrison 12/4/23 Kirsten Harrison 12/4/23

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.

Kirsten Harrison 11/9/23 Kirsten Harrison 11/9/23

Contemplative Curiosity: Lama Rod Owens on Goodness

What do you notice and wonder as you read this Lama Rod Owens quote on goodness?

Kirsten Harrison 10/24/23 Kirsten Harrison 10/24/23

Contemplative Curiosity: Mary Oliver on Moments

Creating space for presence with Mary Oliver's words about moments.

Kirsten Harrison 9/11/23 Kirsten Harrison 9/11/23

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.

Kirsten Harrison 7/7/23 Kirsten Harrison 7/7/23

Contemplative Curiosity: Praying Our Experiences

Praying our experiences means being open to seeing ourselves as we are. This requires an awareness and an honesty that will root us in our actual daily life.

Kirsten Harrison 6/25/23 Kirsten Harrison 6/25/23

Contemplative Curiosity: Dr. Gerald May on Making Friends with Mystery

When we were children, most of us were good friends with mystery. The world was full of it and we loved it. Then as we grew older, we slowly accepted the indoctrination that mystery exists only to be solved.