Barbara Brown Taylor — “This Hunger for Holiness” | The On Being Project
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Barbara Brown Taylor — “This Hunger for Holiness” | The On Being Project
What I found was that it was the prayers and practices of the church that allowed me to hold to—or rather to be held by—God when little else seemed sturdy, to hold to the Christian story even when I found no satisfying answers.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
Encounters with the sacred that radiate from the core of the ordinary embolden you to cultivate stillness and simple awareness. In the midst of a world that is begging you to distract yourself, this is no easy practice. Yet you keep showing up. You are indomitable. You are thirsty for wonder.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
In recent years, I've begun to suspect that a life consumed by ideas will not bring me closer to the divine. The freedom I seek, it seems, doesn't lie in my laying about, steeped in my own brain, but rather in the stillness I've found in the more mundane moments of my life. In these moments, there is no euphoria, nor even any active reflection on g... See more
Nadia • Glimpsing God
