Podcast – Lisa Colón DeLay | Spiritual Formation and the Way of the Desert Elders

A short bit on Meister Eckhart today as part of a series on the topic of "The Wayless Way"

Trauma therapist Aundi Kolber is a guest on Spark My Muse with host Lisa Colon DeLay. With her book Strong Like Water, Kolber builds on her critically-acclaimed and much-beloved first book called Try Softer.

Lisa Colón DeLay reads from her book on the topic of spiritual formation related to how we resource mature and effective social action.

A reading from The Wild Land Within by Lisa Colon DeLay ln Listening (and more on the sabbatical)

Steve Garnaas-Holmes is featured today. Originally this was recorded in 2020 for a session online called Soul School Lunch Break hosted by Lisa Colon DeLay that ran as an experiment for a few weeks.

A reading and reflection on Howard Thurman (via Lerita Coleman Brown's book) on Inner Authority and Presence byhost Lisa Colón DeLay

A conversation with Drew Jackson who writes poetry at the intersection of justice, peace, and contemplation, with a passion to contribute toward a more just and whole world.

With the help of Lerita Coleman Brown we are apprenticing with spiritual teacher Howard Thurman on topics of the religion of Jesus, inner authority, centering down, religious experience, social change, and sacred synchronicity.

On living with an ethic of softness in a cruel world. Guest, Robert J. Monson in conversation with host Lisa Colón DeLay.

Poet, nature-lover, and author Heidi Barr brings us Collisions of Earth and Sky and invites us to journey deeper. Enjoy our conversation.

Reflection on the purpose of life which is to learn to love and to make it fun. Host Lisa Colon DeLay

The vitality of contradiction and the homecoming of self-retrieval. Featuring work of John O'Donohue (Anam Cara)

Starting the new year with a reading from Thomas Merton and sharing 2 of my own poems (Lisa Colon DeLay, host).

Reflections on beginning a New Year from Howard Thurman and an invitation to do a personal accounting of the year past from host Lisa Colon DeLay.

Howard Thurman on joy.

Featuring readings from Howard Thurman and Campbell McGrath for reflection and solace.

15 common misperceptions and how you can avoid being miserable this December.

A conversation with Cindy S. Lee exploring cyclical spirituality, grief, and de-westernizing our faith

A journey from Advent to Epiphany with Mary, Elizabeth, and Anna

Featuring some work by the fantastic Chuck DeGroat on attachment and how we can eventually form into people of love.

Today, host Lisa Colón DeLay shares material on the topic of human attachment styles. How we have learned or continue to emotionally attach or detach plays a definitive role in our most important bonds, connections, and relationships.

How obstacles to love will include other people's opinions, from host Lisa Colon DeLay

Host Lisa Colón DeLay discusses the human need to connect with others to become more ourselves. How can we begin?

What the ancients called 'the passions' cause us pain and stand as obstacles to love.

With the insights of Dr Nicole LePera, host Lisa Colon DeLay explores the surprising consequences of emotionally immature parenting.