In this episode, we talk about the “theme” of surrender and how it is an on-going practice, while at the same time the only option we have. We share what surrendering has looked like in our lives and how it’s reminiscent of what we were taught to do as christians, yet very different. Karen relates a jellyfish metaphor that offers practical wisdom for how we can surrender more deeply to the present moment and not get so attached to the past or an imagined future. Dave offers some visualization and meditation practices that can help ground us in the now and bring us to a place that is “beyond thinking.” We wrap up the podcast with the real-life struggles of learning to trust and the temptation to keep living under the illusion of control.
Resources mentioned
Meister Eckhart - Book of the heart: Meditations for the restless soul
Becoming the Bravest Woman you know by Karen Holmes (about the jellyfish metaphor)
Carl Sagan's "Pale blue dot" quote
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
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