Cormac Stagg

Mystic in the Ignatian Tradition, Writer, Poet and Public Speaker

We Hold Heaven in Our Hands

Sing like no one’s listening…, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth. – Mark Twain. Oh, to live and move and be like that! To be so free from the bondage of ego-centric constraint that we could live with complete abandon, here in the now, in Heaven on Earth. In truth, despite years of committed misfit mystic practice, I’m not there yet, […]

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Audacious Freedom and Peace Dreamers

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. – Nelson Mandela. These past few days, my misfit mystic musing has been on:  In days to come, the mountain of God’s house shall be established on the highest mountains…

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Spiritual Connection Sets You Free

I got a reminder the other day—I need lots of reminders—by one of my spiritual sisters who, like my myself, had walked the path of brokenness. She said that true freedom comes from simplicity and connection.    God alone knows I’ve spent half a lifetime going my own way, striving for this or that, in the

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