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
Your practice may take the shape of twenty minutes a day on a cushion or aimless solitary walks on the beach. It can look like kneeling in a church or a mosque or simply like following the flow of one breath to the next with your full attention.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
to prove to oneself the unity of all existence, visible and unseen. By obtaining a calm and poised disposition and a generous and round character, one secured and served—embodied and lived—this unity. This approach to every moment was seen as the most transcendental of life motives—it was life’s meaning and truest purpose!
Jonathon Miller Weisberger • Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
We can be awake and intimately in touch with the mystery of the present moment. This is a lifestyle choice, not a goal. When something appears to take us out of present-moment experience, we can question it rather than follow it with credulity. We don’t have to let it hoodwink us with the promise that we will be in touch with the mystery of present
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“When we make a pact with ourselves to show up for reality just as it is, reality rewards us by revealing its hidden holiness, its ordinary wonder, its fruitful shadows and radiant wounds.”
— Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground by Mirabai Starr
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— Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground by Mirabai Starr
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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.