That inner world is a great place for us listening artists to go to practice, to rehearse, our precious art form. After all, how can I truly listen to another if I’m unable to listen to myself? That inner world is a great place for us listening artists to go to practice, to rehearse, our precious art form. After all, how can I truly listen to another if I’m unable to listen to myself?
Read MoreBeing in community does take skills, skills that can only be learned in community. I’ve come to believe that compassion is one of those skills: compassion for ourselves as well as compassion others. Sharing, listening, and discernment also. These are all communal practices, and integral to the art of spiritual direction.
Read MoreAs we sit with others and they learn to notice that guiding spark within themselves, do we join with the divine to become a part of creating new life?
Read MoreA Winter Solstice Letter from the Stillpoint Board
Read MoreWhenever I hear news about all that is going on in our world, I am reminded of the importance of spiritual direction and of what we do at Stillpoint. “Stillpoint exists to nurture pathways to wholeness by encouraging contemplative living, faithful practice, and spiritual activism.”
Read MoreAs I went about the following days and weeks, I couldn’t unsee this image andwould check every maintenance hole cover I’d pass, finding many shared a similar fate.
Read MoreI wonder what metaphors you would use for spiritual direction? I wonder what metaphors you would use for spiritual direction? How would you describe the experience?
Read MoreI write this with a heart full of gratitude for Stillpoint, who has not only introduced me to the art of spiritual direction but also to the ever-growing community of spiritual companions and seekers of contemplative life.
Read MoreIn spiritual direction we listen for those longings of the soul, and for what they might be telling
us. We lift them up so they can be remembered and acknowledged.
Read MoreFor the many who sense there is something more, something unspoken, something Divine in all of us, there is an urgent need to provide a way for those people to find the Still Point within themselves that knows beyond words that they are not alone.
Read MoreEarlier this year, even my hometown Los Angeles experienced one of our coldest winters. For those of you who know me—cold weather and I are not good friends.
Read MoreIt is almost a year to the day of my writing that I started the long solo drive east. After 17 years in Los Angeles I found myself driving back across the country towards home.
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