
Orienting Toward the Sacred

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
We can begin to experience nature as a doorway to the sacred, a way to find stillness, silence, and timeless mystery.
Mark Coleman • Awake in the Wild
And so we let our hearts guide us. We let our bodies guide us. “When we align ourselves with our deepest prayer, the next right thing unfolds,” Cynthia discovered. This is the way of the feminine mystic.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
For me, most simply, contemplative spirituality is a fidelity to beholding the divine in all things. In the field, on the walk home, sitting under the oak tree that hugs my house. A sacred attention.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
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The normal and the everyday is a mystery, too. Yet few people have the eyes to see it that way