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
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
Live Ritualistically — Bring sacred intention into ordinary acts. Infuse daily life with intention. Turning ordinary acts—like eating or walking—into sacred rituals that can ground you in the present moment.
“Welcome to the temple of your regular life. The garden of your days, the harbor where you catch your breath, the theater of your relationships. This is the terrain where you wake up and transform. The sometimes chaotic, frequently fraught, unexpectedly beautiful domain of the everyday. You do not need to trek to a remote shrine in the Himalayas,... See more
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Mysticism has never belonged to one people, one race, or one pathway. Anyone can be called into the unseen. Anyone can feel the tug of the sacred along the edges of their life. But what I’m learning—what I’m remembering—is that every mystic walks with a lineage, whether they recognize it or not. Not a racial identity, not a category assigned by
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