by Sarah Chauncey | May 4, 2016 | Spirituality
The other day, I saw the above photo in my Facebook feed (photo © Kerry Dixon). “Transformation” is a nebulous word, kind of like “sustainability” was a decade ago. Few people identify their primary field as “transformation.” Rather, it crosses multiple sectors, from...
by Sarah Chauncey | May 3, 2016 | Spirituality, Writing
Transformation isn’t about words. Most of us who work in transformation research, write about or teach concepts that can only be fully understood as a direct experience. It’s about an experience that words can only point to. Yet words are what we have. For most of us,...
by Sarah Chauncey | Apr 20, 2016 | Spirituality, Writing
“What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.” – David Whyte Language is a paradox. Words are symbols that can never capture the essence of what they point to, yet at this point in our evolution, words are the...
by Sarah Chauncey | Feb 18, 2016 | Spirituality
I love music—who doesn’t?—yet it had never occurred to me that music itself could be a teaching, that it could bring people to the place, the experience, that spiritual teachers’ words point to, the transcendence that’s sometimes found in meditation (and often isn’t)....
by Sarah Chauncey | Nov 7, 2015 | Spirituality
In the summer of 2013, when I was in the midst of two years of financial hardship, someone asked me: “If you could ask for one wish, and know it would come true, what would it be?” My immediate answer was “enlightenment.” The questioner was surprised I didn’t say...
by Sarah Chauncey | May 11, 2015 | Spirituality
[Please note: This post is from 2015] Until May 30, Sounds True is offering 30 streaming interviews with spiritual teachers on the subject of awakening. I’m listening to many of them and just basking in the wisdom. I’ve had multiple moments of recognition,...
