Tending the Garden Within
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✨🕯️🌒 Beyond and Becoming: Transcendence & Transformation
There are moments on the path when the language itself asks to be listened to more carefully.Not because the words are complicated—but because they are alive. Two such words that often get braided together in spiritual spaces are transcendence and… Continue reading
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🌿 Living the Questions
My spiritual practice today looks very different than it once did. It’s less about believing something and more about experiencing—less about adopting ideas and more about listening, embodying, and discerning what actually aligns at the soul level. What some might… Continue reading
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✨ Soft-Bound Saturdays — Rest as a Sacred Rhythm
Some Saturdays arrive like a quiet threshold, the kind you don’t notice until you’ve crossed it — warm mug in hand, the body exhaling a little deeper, the spirit leaning into its own edges with curiosity rather than urgency. This… Continue reading
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The Seven Tears of the Soul
Al-Ghazali, Consciousness, and the Initiatory Language of Weeping There are many forms of language — speech, symbol, gesture, proximity —but the mystics knew there was a language deeper than words:the language of tears. The Sufi master Abu Hamid al-Ghazali taught… Continue reading
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🌿 The Garden Within: Tending the Gut as Sacred Ground
There are seasons when our bodies whisper… and then there are times they thunder.Lately, my own belly temple has been calling for mending — not through urgency, but through devotion. The gut is not merely an organ system; it is… Continue reading
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