This week we talk to Mirabai Starr about grief and healing
Mirabai Starr writes, speaks and leads retreats on the inter-spiritual teachings of the mystics.
Known for her revolutionary translations of John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, and Julian of Norwich, Mirabai renders mystical masterpieces accessible, beautiful, and relevant to a contemporary circle of seekers. Her commentaries on the interconnected wisdom of all traditions are lyrical and evocative.
Mirabai builds bridges not only between religious traditions, but also between contemplative life and compassionate service, between cultivating an inner relationship with the Beloved and expressing that intimacy in community, between the transformational power of loss and longing for the sacred.
Her latest book is called Caravan of No Despair
In This Interview, Mirabai Starr and I Discuss:
- The One You Feed parable
- Walking the landscape of loss in a genuine way
- Learning to be present even when things are really hard
- The death of her 14 year old daughter
- How sometimes spiritual teachings fail us and are of no use
- Realizing that we share our suffering with so many other people
- The Stages of Grief
- Returning to joy after great loss, it eventually happens
- How tragedy and trauma are not guarantees to transformation
- The states of mind that allow us to turn our pain into treasure
- Cultivating curiosity about our experiences, even when painful
- The Dark Night of the Soul
- The transforming power of love
- How vast we are as beings
- Telling the truth about grief
- The holiness of being broken open
- What mysticism is
- Mystical poetry
- The desire to experience union
- The four arms of yoga in Hinduism
- Approaching the divine in the way that is best for each of us
- What interspirituality is
- The difference between interspiritual and interfaith
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