Your Life as Sacred Ground: Finding Meaning and Wonder in Daily Life

Award-winning Author, Internationally Acclaimed Speaker and Former Professor of Philosophy and World Religions
Mirabai Starr to Speak at Trinity Spiritual Center

SOUTHPORT, CT (October 21, 2024) – Trinity Spiritual Center will host an in-person conversation and live stream event with acclaimed author and teacher Mirabai Starr on Thursday, November 21^st at 6:30 PM.  This special event is open to all members of the community regardless of religious affiliation.

Starr will lead a lively, interactive discussion demonstrating to audience members how to discover the extraordinary in our everyday lives. She will show how everyone can find meaning and wonder, even in the most mundane moments of our lives.

Starr will share experiences of her own life journey, as well as insights from spiritual teachers across the centuries, offering ancient and contemporary practices that will help us wake up to the daily miraculous. In her new book Ordinary Mysticism, Starr makes clear how we can all experience the sacred in everyday events: weeding our gardens, an evening walk with a friend, our kitchen table surrounded by family, indeed even in our shortcomings, including the mess that we create of our lives.

She contends that the spiritual dimension of our lives is always available to us. What we need to do is learn how to tap into an inherent way of knowing that we all possess. This is the way of the mystic.

A professor of Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for twenty years, Mirabai travels the world sharing her wisdom on contemplative living, writing as a spiritual practice, and the transformational power of grief and loss.  She has authored over a dozen books, including Wild Mercy, Caravan of No Despair, and God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Starr has received critical acclaim for her revolutionary contemporary translations of the mystics John of the Cross, Teresa of Ávila, and Julian of Norwich.  In 2020, she was honored on Watkins’ list of the “100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.”

“Ordinary Mysticism is the ripened fruit of a lifetime of study, practice and teaching across and beyond the world’s great wisdom traditions,” observes Starr. “My prayer for you is that you will fearlessly look upon your life as holy and whole.  That you will find meaning and wonder bubbling up from the ground of your most ordinary moments.”

“Trinity Spiritual Center is delighted that Mirabai will join us in Southport to share her insights how our daily lives can lead us into a deeper understanding of the mysteries of life,” says Mark Grayson, its Founding Director. “Drawing on her wealth of knowledge of ancient wisdom traditions, she has created a set of practices from which we can all benefit.”

Copies of her book Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground will be on sale at the in-person event.  An author signing will follow.

WHAT:            “Finding Meaning and Wonder in Your Life: Author/Speaker Mirabai Starr”

WHEN:             Thursday, November 21^st at 6:30 p.m.

WHERE:           Trinity Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 651 Pequot Avenue, Southport, CT

COST:              $25

REGISTER:       All are welcome.  https://MirabaiStarr.eventbrite.com

QUESTIONS:   mrkgrsn@gmail.com

About Trinity Spiritual Center

Trinity Spiritual Center is a dynamic and growing community of people of all ages and beliefs, engaging in a broad range of learning experiences to inspire and support their own journeys of spiritual growth.  It offers programs and practices that inspire and engage the greater community.  Trinity Spiritual Center is pleased to be partnered with Trinity Episcopal Church.

About Trinity Episcopal Church
Trinity Episcopal Church is located in the historic seaside district of Southport at 651 Pequot Avenue (at Center Street) and welcomes seekers of all denominations. Trinity’s mission is to provide a vibrant 21^st century Episcopal community that inspires spiritual growth, nurtures genuine connections, and promotes charitable service.