Musing Mystic Blog

“Seek and you will surely find.”

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God is With Us

“The best thing of all is God is with us.” – John Wesley. Eventually, on my journey, ravaged and broken as it …

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“Seeking the female face of God releases divine mystery from its age-old patriarchal cage so that God can be truly God.” – …

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“Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.” – Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Recently, the little place I had been renting for many …

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It’s game on time, let healing games begin! Deep in the Heart, every mystery of spirit is hidden. – Rumi. If you regularly …

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The She Spirit God

I know a priest who has the unusual habit, for a Roman-collared fella, of always replacing ‘He’ with ‘She’ when reading biblical …

Solidarity, however, is a whole different ball game, not least, because it is a must do in any serious spiritual practice. It goes much deeper and wider than mere self-interest and the current cause of this or that affiliation. It is a totally other-centered, boundless active doing thing. 

We must learn to live together as sisters & brothers or we will all perish together as fools” – Martin Luther King, …

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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 …

I believe that a changed heart is really the name of the game, the central aim of the spiritual life.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves. ― Leo Tolstoy. As always with an out-there misfit …

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For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances …

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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 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.

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 …

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.     

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. — Mother Teresa. High or …