Going too far into metaphysics can distort our shared world... Going too far into materialism can shrink it until it’s not worth inhabiting...

We’ve lived in the realm of thought, of commentary, of third hand experience for so long that we’ve begun to hunger for the first hand taste of being. Not an idea of God or a metaphor for meaning but an encounter. The thing itself. In the West especially, we’re hungry for it...

I am very fond of the image of Atlas.. I think it very apt for how we often array ourselves. Feeling ourselves apart from everything else... x.com/4sakenShadow/s…

The Mystic's Posture A stance rooted in the ground of our being. The truth of what we are must be what it most truly is. And so I trust in that. I trust that we each share in that truth. That all of existence emanates from and returns to it There are many paths that illumine

My name is both designation and invitation As I am B the Mystic so too can you Be the Mystic

Good religion will bow before the very mystery it seeks to name. It will hand you over to the Beloved. Even if it costs it its own authority. In the final hour it will dismantle itself so you can see with your own eyes the One it pointed to all along.

Cultivating an inner posture of prostration is transformative. It's the difference between being battery powered and being plugged directly into the source. Releasing everything I am into the river of "Right now" mirrors existence emptying itself into Me. Divine participation

Spiritual claims of peace and bliss can often sound impossible or as if they come from some particular state of being that is different. Mysteriously what is being described is foundational to everyday experience. This is the grace of it all, it's something we can awaken to.

God is a someone we can meet Not a something we can think or capture within our understanding Belief is doorway into reception of God, rather than a mechanism for conceiving of a God In the silent spaces between thought, the presence of that which holds us becomes undeniable

The temerity to smile into life’s many guises is the blooming flower of realizing the reciprocity of being

Heaven is not the reward for believing the right things. It is the fruit of living in harmony with our divine nature.

The concept of sin provides a lens, or a mirror which basically says: "You were made for love, for wholeness, for communion. So anything that pulls you from that... is sin. Not because it offends God, but because it wounds your soul.” Illuminating a path to transformation

Not every prayer is answered how I hoped But every breath is an answered prayer The miracle isn’t always what changes The gift is that I’m here to ask That I am known as I know This chance at existence This window into right now It is all so Genesis 1:31 good

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