Learn things by heart, because they die of cold on the page.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.

“Caravan of No Despair is a shimmering offering from a heart that’s been broken open by life and death. The holiness that tears through these pages doesn’t come from a mountaintop, lofty ideas, or a meditation cushion, but instead from revealing the almost. Caravan of No Despair August 2, 2017 Hosted by Cheryl Jones Download MP3 Bookmark Episode Guest Information Note:Scroll left for more guests. Mirabai Starr: Episode Description. Mirabai Starr was decades into a deep spiritual practice. Then on the day her first book, a translation of Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross, came out.

The Caravan Of No Despair

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.

Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.

Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Be notorious. Destroy your reputation.

When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

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Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

Sit, be still, and listen,
because you’re drunk
and we’re at
the edge of the roof.

I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I’ve been knocking from the inside.

Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep!

You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!

I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

Mirabai Starr Caravan Of No Despair

On a day when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day.

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On the day her first book came out-a new translation of Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross-Mirabai Starr’s daughter, Jenny, was killed in a car accident. “My spiritual life began the day my daughter died,” writes Mirabai. Even with decades of spiritual practice and a deep immersion in the greatest mystical texts, she found herself utterly unprepared for “my most powerful catalyst for transformation, my fiercest and most compassionate teacher.”

With Caravan of No Despair, Mirabai shares an irreverent, uplifting, and intimate memoir of her extraordinary life journey. Through the many twists and turns of her life-including a tangled relationship with a charlatan-guru, her unexpected connection with the great Christian mystics, and the loss of her daughter-Mirabai finds the courage to remain open and defenseless before the mystery of the divine. “Tragedy and trauma are not guarantees for a transformational spiritual experience,” writes Mirabai Starr, “but they are opportunities. They are invitations to sit in the fire and allow it to transfigure us.”

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