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
Contemplative Curiosity: Neil Theise on Complexity
A 10-ish minute spiritual practice -- bringing curiosity to a quote on complexity by Dr. Neil Theise.
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.
She hadn’t been wide awake for years
What does this wisdom collage stir in you? Do the words or images draw you in? Do you resist them?
You’re on the Right Path
Here’s an invitation to an unconventional spiritual practice —bringing curiosity to evocative images to notice resonance and resistance. What does this wisdom collage stir in you?
Contemplative Curiosity: Lama Rod Owens on Goodness
What do you notice and wonder as you read this Lama Rod Owens quote on goodness?
End of the…
This practice invites you to engage with evocative images to listen with curiosity for inner resonance and resistance.
Audio Divina: Listening deeply with “Gracias a La Vida”
Here’s an invitation into a new-to-me spiritual practice I encountered on the CAC’s instagram site.
What Does It Mean to Go Slow?
Explore what it means to go slow with this evocative image collage. What does it stir in you?
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.
We Are Called to Nurture a Just and Loving World
This practice invites you to engage with evocative images to listen with curiosity for inner resonance and resistance.
Core State Meditation: Holy/Hurt Podcast
This lovely meditation by Dr. Hillary McBride invites us to visit this place John O’Donohue wrote about in the quote above.
Something is Happening That Can’t Be Explained
Practice listening to your inner wisdom by contemplating an evocative image and sensing what arises in you.
Make Way for a Breath of Fresh Air
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.
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.
Contemplative Curiosity: Mary Oliver on Praying
What does Mary Oliver’s instruction on prayer evoke in you? Here’s an invitation to engage with her words contemplatively.
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.
Everything is Going to Be Alright
What words shimmer for you in this poem by Derek Mahon? What arises in you as you hold those words?