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Saying Yes To Our Lives

Mirabai Starr

All my life, I have been enamored of the God-intoxicated ones. Those rarified souls who slip into ecstatic states and spontaneously utter poetry. The ones who exude deep stillness, embody equanim...

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7K reads, 16 comments

Fullness On The Other Side Of Emptiness

Mirabai Starr

In many mystical traditions, across the spectrum of the world’s religions, we find a paradoxical teaching that says the most reliable means for knowing God is by unknowing. Christian mysticism u...

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18K reads, 11 comments

Thirsty For Wonder

Mirabai Starr

Contemplative life flows in a circular pattern: awe provokes introspection, which invokes awe. Maybe you’re making dinner and you step outside to snip chives from the kitchen garden just as t...

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14K reads, 10 comments