This gathering is in-person.
You may also watch it live on our YouTube channel.
Our 2023 Spiritual Discernment:
Transforming the Body, Heart, and Mind
JANUARY: Purifying the Body
FEBRUARY: Cleansing the Heart
MARCH: Observing the Mind
APRIL: Refining the Body
MAY: Educating the Heart
JUNE: Clarifying the Mind
JULY: Relaxing the Body
AUGUST: Surrendering the Heart
SEPTEMBER: Dissolving the Mind
OCTOBER: Finding Balance in the Body
NOVEMBER: Harmonizing the Heart
DECEMBER: Recreating the Mind
“You will lose everything. Your money, your power, your fame, your success, perhaps even your memories. Your looks will go. Loved ones will die. Your body will fall apart. Everything that seems permanent is impermanent and will be smashed. Experience will gradually, or not so gradually, strip away everything that it can strip away. Waking up means facing this reality with open eyes and no longer turning away.
But right now, we stand on sacred and holy ground, for that which will be lost has not yet been lost, and realizing this is the key to unspeakable joy. Whoever or whatever is in your life right now has not yet been taken away from you. This may sound trivial, obvious, like nothing, but really it is the key to everything, the why and how and wherefore of existence. Impermanence has already rendered everything and everyone around you so deeply holy and significant and worthy of your heartbreaking gratitude.
Loss has already transfigured your life into an altar.” ` ~ Jeff Foster
About Reverend Karen Lindquist:
Karen is co-founder and co-minister of Interfaith Community Sanctuary, a spiritual community grounded in circular leadership principles. She co-creates interfaith services throughout the year at the Sanctuary and with interfaith organizations in the greater Seattle area. For many years she served as a board member on The Interfaith Council of Washington and The Interfaith Network, now known as Northwest Interfaith. Reverend Karen’s regular spiritual practices include deep immersion within the Mevlevi tradition (as a follower of Rumi) with the Mevlevi Order of America and absorption into the mystic tradition of Ecclesia Gnostica through the Hagia Sophia Gnostic Parish.
As a community,
we endeavor to live in
the openness of heart
and compassionate
understanding
that embraces all life.As a spiritual organization,
we are collectively organized
to thrive through listening,
sharing, and caring
for one another.As individuals in awe
~ Reverend Karen Lindquist co-founder & co-minister of Interfaith Community Sanctuary
of the Divine,
we support and respect
one another’s
personal spiritual path
and spiritual practices.
What is Interspirituality?
“Interspirituality is committed to finding the spirituality both within and beyond religion. What ties us together is a shared desire to connect with the Ground of Being in a way that fully respects our differences. The challenge is to embody what is most true and real for us without seeking to convince or convert others.” ~ Joan Borysenko
Interspirituality comes from the work of Wayne Teasdale, who developed this term to reflect commonalities between religious traditions, specifically those that are spiritual in nature. These commonalities across religious practices do not erase differences in beliefs, rather they build community and sharing across practices, leading to the ultimate goal of more human responsibility to one another and the planet as a whole. At its core, this is an “assimilation of insights, values, and spiritual practices” drawn from many different traditions that can be applied to one’s own life to further personal, spiritual development.
*What is Intra-Spirituality?* This is a new concept / word offered by George Ramirez shared with our Guiding Council on March 5th 2023. We are developing our understanding of this word/concept and look forward to evolving our consciousness to best explain our work, our gatherings, our vision.
SHARING OUR WEALTH
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Your generous donation allows us to continue offering interfaith worship services, events, classes. Also to continue creating sacred community as well as maintaining a historic building in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Currently we are in the process of recovering from rain water damage.
Thank you for your help!
Your generous DONATION may be mailed to:
Interfaith Community Sanctuary
1763 NW 62nd Street
Seattle, Washington 98107
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
“I wish to acknowledge the land I occupy is the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, in particular the Muckleshoot, Suquamish, and Duwamish Tribes. I am grateful to them as the rightful past, present, and future caretakers of this beautiful land which I do not own but which I call home. I am also grateful to cedar, frog, deer, and all those beings who were here long before me and my kin. I apologize to them all for any injustice enacted upon them. I must recognize those Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous peoples who helped build this country but were often enslaved, exploited, or unpaid, and continue to face racism and discrimination. They require liberation and reparation in the name of healing, equity, and justice. We are One.” ~ Steve Kramer, Charter for Compassion
