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Our late-summer issue covers:

• The start of registration for our 2021 One-Day Fall Workshop, November 13 via Zoom, featuring Phileena Heuertz on the topic of “three-centered awareness”
• Continuing registration for our Fall Retreat: Weekend Immersion, October 8-10
• An invitation encouraging you to share a reflection or other piece of your own writing in Spirit Journal
• A personal reflection from Jeffrey Ediger on The Gathering Stillness of the Moon
• News about other selected contemplative events and resources to support your journey
• Insights from Aldous Huxley, Maya Angelou, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Thomas Merton.

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This issue features:

• A couple of important “save the date” announcements for a weekend retreat and a one-day workshop coming up this fall
• Information about an Introduction to Centering Prayer workshop coming right up on July 21 and 28 via Zoom.
• Two personal reflections: one from Sandy Janowski on her experience of a recent retreat and one from Linda Jackim on “unexpected arrivals of grace”
• An special invitation encouraging you to share a reflection or other piece of your own writing in Spirit Journal
• News about several other contemplative events and resources to support your journey
• Insights from Mirabai Starr, Cynthia Bourgeault, Howard Thurman, and Gerald May

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This issue marks the beginning of Spirit Journal’s seventh year of publication – thanks to all of our readers for your continued interest!

The June issue features:

• An interview about the meaning of Juneteenth (our new national holiday, as of this week) with Leslie Geer of Contemplative Outreach Atlanta
• A look back at the recently concluded Living Flame 2 program
• Information about a new film to be released July 6th by the Mind & Life Institute: Evolution of the Heart, conversations with the Dalai Lama, including a link to a two-and-a-half minute trailer
• News about several contemplative events and resources to support your journey
• Insights from Richard Rohr, Thomas Keating, Seccho, and Susan Saltzberg

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Our May issue features:

• A reflection written by Alan Krema, inspired by the Gospel of Thomas and Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited
• News about half a dozen contemplative events and resources for your journey
• Insights from Sen T’sen, William Penn, St. John of the Cross, and Meister Eckhart

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This month’s issue features:

• A brief note on the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, April 13-May 12
• Our monthly listing of online and in-person contemplative events
• Insights from Gustav Mahler, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Hunt, and Aldous Huxley

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This month’s issue features:

• Information about our upcoming workshop on Contemplation and Anti-Racism, presented in collaboration with the Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate Anti-Racism Committee.
• An introduction to Reflections, a new library of writings about contemplation and related topics, which we’ve recently added to our website
• A poem by Sue Fox McGovern, inspired by her participation in the Living Flame 2 program
• Our monthly listing of additional online and in-person contemplative events
• Insights from Jack Kornfield, Ram Dass, Rami Shapiro and Bernie Glassman

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