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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The Guest House by Rumi

Helena Bonham Carter reads Rumi’s The Guest House. What does this welcoming poem stir in you?

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God

A brief essay by Brian Doyle about his encounter with God -- unconventional, indeed. What does this way of seeing God stir in you?

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It Can Renew Your Faith in the World

Sometimes an image or phrase can help us gently help us excavate this wisdom (like an archaeologist, not a construction worker!). Here’s a practice to experiment with.

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Please Come Home, a poem by Jane Hooper

Here’s a poem about coming home to ourselves, to inner wisdom — not as an end in itself, but as the place we perceive the ways we are interconnected.

Kirsten Harrison 2/7/23 Kirsten Harrison 2/7/23

Felt Sense: A tool for noticing + naming our body’s wisdom

Here’s a tool I use in my life and my trauma-informed spiritual direction practice often. Naming our felt sense of something helps us connect with the wisdom of our body.