Being Love Amidst Complex Times With Marinda MacPherson

The Sophia Institute is pleased to have Marinda MacPherson return to us to offer this very special session on Being Love Amidst Complex Times.

Love is the spiritual power we need to remain resilient, live meaningfully and meet our world with wisdom—and we need it more than ever now. Love is not merely something we give or receive.

Love is the heart of who we truly are: the very heart of God, alive within us. Yet amidst relentless change, heart-breaking news and deepening division, how do we stay connected to this nourishing Reality? How do we keep our hearts open without becoming overwhelmed, shutting down, or adding to the very division we long to heal?

Real Love is not sentimental, passive or naïve. It is a profound spiritual capacity – a way of being, seeing and responding that calls us to cultivate the spiritual musculature to remain present amidst intensity, to open rather than contract, and listen for the guiding intelligence of the heart.

Fierce clarity and an open heart need not be in opposition. We can stand up to what is destructive without becoming consumed by hatred. We can meet differences without abandoning discernment, and care deeply about our world without losing our connection to the deeper Reality that sustains us.

What does it truly mean to BE Love—and to come FROM Love? To allow Love to move beyond a beautiful spiritual ideal and become embodied in how we speak, listen, discern, navigate conflict and take meaningful action in service of our loved ones and our wider human family?

In this two-part webinar, Miranda will share luminous teachings and potent experiential practices to help you deepen your access to—and embodiment of—the Love that is fundamental to your being and is the medicine we most need at this time.

Together, we will explore how to:

• Ground yourself more deeply in the Source of Love, receiving the spiritual sustenance you need to remain peaceful, resilient and real.
• Recognize and relax what closes your heart, especially in the situations, relationships and world events that most challenge you.
• Cultivate the spiritual musculature to remain open amidst intensity, without bypassing what is difficult or becoming overwhelmed by it.
• Discover how fierce clarity and an open heart can serve one another, bringing Love, discernment and courage to conflict, destructiveness and injustice.
• Practice BEING Love and coming FROM Love, embodying spiritual truth amidst the complexities of daily life now.

At a time when it is so easy to become contracted, divided or disheartened, this webinar is an invitation to return to the guiding Reality of the heart. To remember the Love that you are, learn to cooperate with its Grace. Discover how coming from Love can become one of the most practical and transformative spiritual paths for the times we are living through. 

About Miranda:

Miranda Macpherson is a contemporary spiritual teacher who has been guiding others into direct experience of the Sacred for over thirty years internationally. In her twenties she founded the OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation in London, where she trained and ordained over 600 ministers and counsellors. Today, Miranda leads the Living Grace Global Sangha, leads retreats internationally, broadcasts extensively and serves as core faculty at The Shift Network, and advisor to the Association for Spiritual Integrity.

Unapologetically feminine, joyful and down to earth in her way of being, Miranda is dedicated to loving people all the way home into the freedom and wholeness of our true nature. Further, Miranda invites others to become more graceful human beings in our world, showing up for creative, peaceful and wise action that serves our loved ones and the human family in these enormous times.

Miranda’s books include The Way of Grace: the Transforming Power of Ego Relaxation (Sounds True), Boundless Love (Rider) and Meditations on Boundless Love (Sounds True), and the Cultivating Grace Card Deck. Miranda is also a kirtan musician and singer with 2 mantra albums – Streams of Grace and The Heart of Being. Find out more at www.mirandamacpherson.com