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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Friday

Friday, August 29, 2025 We are carved by life into instruments that will release our song, if we can hold each up to the carving. Mark Nepo Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread When we pause long enough to listen, we hear that love always longs to cross thresholds we once thought impassable. A simple gesture—an open letter, a knock on...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Thursday

Thursday, August 28, 2025 The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken… bell hooks Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread When Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr. first met, something more than dialogue passed between them....
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Wednesday

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and try to cherish the questions themselves. Rainer Maria Rilke Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread Love becomes visible when the boundaries we inherit begin to fall apart. Teachings that divide people into saved and unsaved carry the weight of...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Tuesday

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard. May Sarton Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread There is a quiet revolution in approaching life with open, attentive presence, as Thomas Merton embodied. He did not seek to conquer, to argue, or to define...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Monday

Monday, August 25, 2025 Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times. Vaclav Havel Click to Join the Community Select One Spiritual Nugget to Inspire Your Day Daily Blessing Embodying Our Hidden Depths Spiritual Practice of the Day Discovery Portal Events The Contemplative Thread To rest in the Spirit is to awaken to a truth that transcends borders and names. If something is true, no matter who said it, it is always from the Holy Spirit. This wisdom...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Sunday

Sunday, August 24, 2025 No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Helen Keller Click to Join the Community Our Next Live Stream isAugust 24 at 6PM CentralPlease Join Us. All Are Welcome. Order, Disorder, Reorder Self-paced Online Courses tinyurl.com/ci-whatiscontemplationCourse - What is Contemplation? tinyurl.com/ci-discoverchrDiscovering Christianity Reflection Series tinyurl.com/ci-interspiritualCourse -...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Saturday

Saturday, August 23, 2025 But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. Martin Luther King, Jr. Click to Join the Community Our Next Live Stream isAugust 24 at 6PM CentralPlease Join Us. All Are Welcome. Order, Disorder, Reorder Self-paced Online Courses tinyurl.com/ci-whatiscontemplationCourse - What is Contemplation? tinyurl.com/ci-discoverchrDiscovering Christianity Reflection Series tinyurl.com/ci-interspiritualCourse - Intro to Interspirituality...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Friday

Friday, August 22, 2025 By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness. Sharon Salzberg Click to Join the Community Our Next Live Stream isAugust 24 at 6PM CentralPlease Join Us. All Are Welcome. Order, Disorder, Reorder Self-paced Online Courses tinyurl.com/ci-whatiscontemplationCourse - What is Contemplation? tinyurl.com/ci-discoverchrDiscovering Christianity Reflection Series...
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Encounter-Discover-Create-Transform Thursday

Thursday, August 21, 2025 Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if that is joy? Ross Gay Click to Join the Community Our Next Live Stream isAugust 24 at 6PM CentralPlease Join Us. All Are Welcome. Order, Disorder, Reorder Self-paced Online Courses tinyurl.com/ci-whatiscontemplationCourse - What is Contemplation?...
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