Finding Meaning and Wonder in Your Daily Life

Trinity Spiritual Center (TSC) will host an in-person conversation and live stream event with author and teacher Mirabai Starr on Thursday, November 21st at 6:30 PM.

Starr will lead a lively, interactive discussion regarding her new book Ordinary Mysticism, in which she shares how everyone can find meaning and wonder in their daily lives, even in the most mundane moments.

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. The presentation is open to all. No affiliation with Trinity Church required.

Starr will share experiences of her own her own life journey, as well as insights from spiritual teachers across the centuries, and 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, a slow evening walk with a friend, a kitchen table surrounded by family, indeed even in our shortcoming, including the mess that we have created of our lives.

She contends that everyone is able to experience the spiritual dimension of their lives by tapping into an inherent way of knowing – beyond learning – that we all possess. This is the natural way of perceiving that mystics use as they engage with the world.

A professor of Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for twenty years, Mirabai now 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.

Host or Publisher Trinity Spiritual Center