Cormac Stagg

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

The promise of inner peace is a key component of all major spiritual traditions. Achieved, through spiritual practice, and thus a direct relationship with the living God, who is peace and love personified. Inner peace is perfect calm and balance, irrespective of external circumstances.

Listen to the inner light

Divinized, immortalized, changed into citizens of peace I’ve been too far-flung places, went sailing on a ship of fools. All firmly in the grip of the delusion that makes fine young hearts grow cold, that all would be fine and dandy, if I could just get hold of more power, prestige, and gold.  Not a drop […]

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There is nothing in this beautiful but broken world that does not have the breath of God in it, absolutely nothing! God is without and within and gives love and life to everything. If I’m separated from my sisters and brothers or indeed the birds and the bees, I’m separated from God. If I want to get fully connected to God, I must seek that connection through the other, every other.     

Belonging: Get Connected! 

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. — Mother Teresa. High or low, black or white, gay or straight, we are all creations of God and thus connected. I don’t mean just with our besties, or nearest and dearest. The interconnection runs much deeper to

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Doing Peace Practice

The Peace Practice Game 

I do not want the peace which passes understanding; I want the understanding which brings peace. — Helen Keller. Few things are more desirable, indeed more longed for, by our ever-longing souls, than peace. Peace of mind or, better yet, peace of heart! We have this innate longing right from the get-go, it’s part of

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