Perspectives from Susan on humanity, spirituality and hope — the ideas that have shaped the values at Circles in the Square — alongside the writing our circle keeps returning to.
Written on the walk, or in the quiet after a circle.
What if the universe constantly washes us in love wrapped around the sorrow?
Susan Wright
Written as the final paper of a Master's at the Vancouver School of Theology — on what a year of Circles in the Square taught its founder about leading it.
Susan Wright
New writing and what's coming up, gently, once a month.
Contemplative writing on humanity, spirituality, and hope — drawn from Susan's archive, edited for the reading room and growing over time.
Susan is editing about a dozen of her papers for this collection.
Words we keep returning to — passed around the circle, and passed on to you. Shared here as short excerpts, with thanks to their authors.
“Remember you are not alone, though the sermons of an oppressive obvious press a different take on your skin. To these stentorian voices that preach your isolation, remind them that you are not alone — and this is not because there are others around you, but because you are already made of others.
There's a generosity attending you: a prior generosity. Even the capacity to feel grief, to be torn asunder in the face of so much suffering, to wonder what it means to be human now, is the generosity of your body in its excessive spillages.”
— Báyò Akómoláfé, Dear Friend, you are not alone
The morning after the Tumbler Ridge tragedy, the Song Circle had to decide whether to sing.
Carol MacKinnon
You don't have to enter a monastery to be a mystic. To be a mystic in our times is not about renunciation; it is about intention.
Mirabai Starr
The belief in the power of divine love for us, as opposed to power over us.
John Cobb
Wisdom is not about knowing more, but about knowing deeper, with more of you participating.
Cynthia Bourgeault
You are not alone — not because there are others around you, but because you are already made of others.
Báyò Akómoláfé
Have one to add? We'd love to hear it.
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