A Single Line Opens the Way 2025
Joining Poetry with Trust to Nourish and Deepen Contemplative Practice
When & Where
Aug 22, 2025, 6:30 PM EDT – Aug 23, 2025, 4:30 PM EDT
Community of St Peter, Cleveland, OH, USA
About the event
One line or a few lines within a poem can stun and upend your way of seeing life. It can help you recover and reclaim a way of seeing, break up acceptance of the status-quo, or, put more fiercely, a single line can tear down a pre-fabricated understanding of life.
At the very same moment of this undoing, that line or few lines in a poem can transmit an energy of wisdom and love with the enduring capacity to resonate with who you are at deeper levels of being.
Such a line might give you a deep grounding, a resonance; something that, while plain, reveals, upon reflection, a reality exquisite, simple and direct: your still small voice within. Through that voice, a shift in perception occurs that opens a person to something real.
We will commit to:
consciously create a safe place for a soul voice and presence to emerge,