Wild Soul at Harvest Preserve Contemplative Conversations -August

“Your soul is both of you and of the world. The world cannot be full until you become fully yourself. Your soul corresponds to a niche, a distinctive place in nature, like a vibrant space of shimmering potential waiting to be discovered, claimed, … occupied. Your soul is in and of the world, like a whirlpool in a river, a wave in the ocean, or a branch of flame in a fire.”

― Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche

In The Practice of the Wild, poet and essayist Gary Snyder defines wildness as being free, spontaneous, self-propagating, self-maintaining, flourishing in accord with innate qualities, self-reliant. Author, activist, and educator Parker Palmer defines the hidden wholeness within each of us as our “inner source of truth, named in various wisdom traditions as identity, true self, heart, spirit or soul,” which we discern by listening to our “inner teacher.” As…