Grounding + Becoming

A Spacious Wisdom Cross-Pollination

Listen for what’s already in you, the seed within reaching toward sunlight. Stretch into what only you can become.

There is no limit to what Wisdom will shine through to reach us. Silence, nature, art, music, words, and connection are some of the prisms through which the invisible may become briefly visible to our subtle senses.

What we will need for the terrain ahead is mysteriously sprinkled around us days, weeks, months, or even years before we actually need it. There is a resonance we cannot quite explain—a knowing that doesn’t seem to conform to our linear timeline and context.

We recognize it.

Father Bruno Barnhart distills the essence of Wisdom:

“If we require a definition, let us call it knowing: a knowing that is personal, experiential, and tending toward union with that which is known.”

Wisdom cannot be known with the mind alone; it ripens in us, as us.

You are known, and you know.

Wisdom practices help us fine-tune our senses and cultivate inner stability to be present to reality, even when it is hard.

Follow the threads that draw you and listen for what is stirred within.

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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.