On Prayer, Redemption & Being The Web of Life [Shorts]

Prayer is something I've come to practice every day. I never would have thought it a few years ago but it's been a crazy curiosity-led journey. For me prayer is deeply related to dialogue and the practice of meditation--something I've done for many years. In this video, I riff on the relationship between prayer, dialogue, meditation, and listening with the heart. The practice has afforded me repeated redemption in the course of my own inner struggles and a long dark nights of the soul. Sometimes irresolvable struggles can only be resolved through surrender. On the other side of which, can be a surprising peace. However, whether it's found in prayer, psychedelics, or a cold plunge that sense of peace doesn't tend last-it has to be cultivated. 

Prayer, alongside other practices, is about inner-outer cultivation of the heart.  Speaking to this 'matter of the heart', I describe how we all have a little flame inside of us. You may call this by many names, spirit or soul but each of those little flames in us makes up the web of life that holds us through our journey. It's one of the most important things in the human experience. When people have near death experiences and return they consistently say that their love for other people and relationships is the most important thing. It makes sense then that we tend to the flame that we bring to one another and ourselves.