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Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground

by Mirabai Starr

“You don’t have to enter a monastery to be a mystic. You don’t have to renounce chocolate or forsake pop culture… To be a mystic in our times is not about renunciation; it is about intention.

Living as a mystic means orienting the whole of yourself toward the sacred. It’s a matter of purposely looking through the lens of love…

You can start right here, in the middle of your messy life. Your beautiful, imperfect, perfect life. There is no other time, and the exact place you find yourself is the best place to enter.”

From Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground (HarperCollins, 2024). Find the full work →
Shared here as a short excerpt, with our thanks to the author.

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