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What a lovely weekend spent meeting new people and sharing an intimate moment of creating art journals and discovering about myself along the way.
Living In Simplicity: Discovering The Deep Wisdom of Meister Eckhart
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Living In Simplicity: Discovering The Deep Wisdom of Meister Eckhart
4.8990 reviews
53 Mill St, Westfield, MA 01085, USA
Nov 19 - 21, 2027
About this Retreat
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Mark S. Burrows is much sought-after as a retreat leader and speaker on mysticism and poetry as well as spirituality and the arts. In 2021, he founded and continues to lead a popular online program, “the Julian Circle,” with monthly Zoom gatherings that encourage participants to live into the wholistic wisdom of Julian’s “showings.” A teacher, scholar and award-winning poet and translator of German poetry, his recent popular books include three collections of meditative poems inspired by Eckhart’s writings, most recently Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light (winner of the 2024 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Medal). Other recent publications include You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke, co-written with Stephanie Dowrick (2024). A member of the Iona Community, he lives and writes in Camden, ME. For more about him: www.soul-in-sight.org
Details of this retreat
“The eye with which I see God and the eye with which God sees me are one eye:
one seeing, one knowing, one loving.”
-Meister Eckhart
What would it mean to live into simplicity to the point that “all things become God” for you? This startling claim, made by the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart, addresses those who seek to live into what he called “fulness of being.” We will consider, with Eckhart, how we might learn to “break through things and grasp God in them,” by letting go of our need to know, manage or control our lives. Simplify, Eckhart reminds us. Go to the “ground” of your life, he insists. There you’ll find that freedom is not the goal but the journey of our lives. Join us for a weekend retreat that invites us to discover “Gelassenheit,” the inner state of “letting-be-ness”— simplicity—by which we learn to embrace what is and let go of worrying about what was or what might be. Together, we will explore passages from Eckhart’s remarkable sermons together with readings from Burrows’ recent collection of meditative poems inspired by Eckhart, Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light (2023).
Friday
3:00 Check-in begins
3:00-6:00 Arrival
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Welcome, Orientation, Opening Session
Saturday
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Session II
10:30 Break
11:00 Small Discussion Groups
12:00p Lunch
3:30 Session III
4:45-5:30 Small Discussion Groups
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Session IV (no discussion groups to follow)
Sunday
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Check-out begins
10:00 Final Session
11:30 Departure
one seeing, one knowing, one loving.”
-Meister Eckhart
What would it mean to live into simplicity to the point that “all things become God” for you? This startling claim, made by the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart, addresses those who seek to live into what he called “fulness of being.” We will consider, with Eckhart, how we might learn to “break through things and grasp God in them,” by letting go of our need to know, manage or control our lives. Simplify, Eckhart reminds us. Go to the “ground” of your life, he insists. There you’ll find that freedom is not the goal but the journey of our lives. Join us for a weekend retreat that invites us to discover “Gelassenheit,” the inner state of “letting-be-ness”— simplicity—by which we learn to embrace what is and let go of worrying about what was or what might be. Together, we will explore passages from Eckhart’s remarkable sermons together with readings from Burrows’ recent collection of meditative poems inspired by Eckhart, Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light (2023).
Friday
3:00 Check-in begins
3:00-6:00 Arrival
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Welcome, Orientation, Opening Session
Saturday
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Session II
10:30 Break
11:00 Small Discussion Groups
12:00p Lunch
3:30 Session III
4:45-5:30 Small Discussion Groups
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Session IV (no discussion groups to follow)
Sunday
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Check-out begins
10:00 Final Session
11:30 Departure
Getting Here
Genesis Spiritual Center, 53 Mill St, Westfield, MA 01085, USA
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