Contemplations

Spiritual life does not require escape from the body or the world. Śailaputrī places sacredness directly within matter: earth, body, relationship, animal life, landscape. The first movement of Nine Nights is therefore not transcendence, but presence.

• Where in my life am I striving to transcend something that is asking to be lived?

• What would it mean to come home to my body, my relationships and the ordinary circumstances of my life?

• How might I embrace my human nature—and all of Nature—as sacred?

Om Devī Śailaputryai Namaḥ

ॐ देवी शैलपुत्र्यै नमः॥

NIGHT ONE