019: Voicemail – Seeing the World Through a Lens of Awe: Brie Stoner on Pablo Neruda

“I have a crazy, crazy love of things.” – Pablo Neruda Brie Stoner is a student, musician, and writer at becomingultrahuman.com. Besides contributing to the Center for Spiritual Resources and Contemplative Wisdom blogs, she contributed to the book Personal Transformation and a New Creation: The Spiritual Revolution of Beatrice Bruteau (edited by Ilia Delio). Brie is also my go-to for all things concerning Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In this episode, Brie shares a reflection on a poet that has made a deep impact on her contemplative journey, and offers a little insight on how Pablo Neruda might improve my own. Subscribe to Contemplify …

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018: The Past Has Arms: Risking Relationship with Ourselves So We Can Grow Up with James Hollis, PhD

“We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.” – W.H. Auden James Hollis, Ph. D., is a trained Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland and currently serves as the Executive Director of the Washington Jung Society and author of numerous books including Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up, The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, and most recently, Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives. In this episode, James shares about his …

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017: Voicemails – Alison Kirkpatrick on The Conscious Parent / Mark Longhurst on The Brothers Karamazov

Alison (Ali) Kirkpatrick is a writer, speaker and educator and you might say professional inspirer of goodness. You can find her blog #SignsOfLove at alisonkirkpatrick.com. Mark Longhurst is a pastor and a curator of the collaborative contemplative website ordinarymystic.net. If you ever get the chance to dance in the same room as Mark…do it. In this episode, Ali and Mark each share a reflection on a book that has made a deep impact on their personal contemplative journey, and offer a little insight on how each book might improve my own. Subscribe to Contemplify via iTunes, Podbean, Overcast or Google Play EPISODE SHOW NOTES Recommended Books by Alison …

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