Tag: Colette Lafia

• Living the Divine Heart: A Monthly Contemplative Gathering facilitated by Colette Lafia (starts tomorrow!)

  My friend Colette Lafia’s new Divine Heart Monthly Gatherings starts tomorrow! This series of seven monthly online heart-centered gatherings will run from October 4, 2023 to April 3, 2024.

  Here’s what Colette’s website has to say about this:

  Is your heart yearning for a deeper experience of Divine Love, the true source of love in our hearts and in our lives? Would you like to live more fully in the Divine Heart? Would you like to grow in the practice of love?
  During our monthly gatherings, we will draw on teachings from the mystics, contemporary spiritual teachers, poetry, various sacred texts. We will also draw on the illuminating teachings within Colette’s book, The Divine Heart: Seven Ways to Live in Divine Love. There will also be prompts for journal writing, guided meditations, and contemplative sharing.

  

  Colette is a spiritual director and a wise companion for the contemplative path. In her work, she invites us into an ever-deepening intimacy with the One who is the source of all Love. If you are looking for a gentle way to deepen your own heart-centered connection to the Divine over the next six months, I believe you will be richly nurtured and blessed by this experience.

  To learn more and to register, visit: www.colettelafia.com/living-the-divine-heart/

  

  October 3, 2023

  Colette Lafia

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• The Wisdom of the Heart (the Eternal Heart Book Launch Celebration!)

  Friends, in case you missed it, here is a recording of the Eternal Heart book launch celebration! We gathered on the evening of June 29 — if you missed it, or want to view it again, watch the video below.

  The theme of the evening was “the Wisdom of the Heart.” To explore that topic, authors Lerita Coleman Brown and Colette Lafia and folksinger Caroline Herring joined in the conversation with me. Our program was sponsored by the Atlanta Episcopal Cathedral Bookstore, Mary & Martha’s Place, and Zeitgeist Atlanta.

  The occasion: the publication of the latest book, Eternal Heart: the Mystical Path to a Joyful Life. I hope you’ll order the book from the Cathedral Bookstore by clicking here. I’ve signed the books they have in stock, so when you order from them, you get an autographed copy. And in the meantime, enjoy the video — Caroline, Colette and Lerita bring true wisdom (and beautiful music) to the celebration!

  July 1, 2021

  Carl McColman, Caroline Herring, Colette Lafia, Lerita Coleman Brown

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• Online Event: The Path of the Awakened Heart (July 31,2021)

  Authors Colette Lafia and Carl McColman join together to lead this special online program celebrating the wisdom of the heart. Sponsored by the East West Bookshop of Mountain View California.

  For more information or to register, click here.

  The Path of the Awakened Heart

  • Saturday, July 31, 2021
  • 11:30 AM 1:00 PM (PST) — 2:30 – 4:00 PM (EST)
  • Online: Sponsored by the East West Bookshop324 Castro StreetMountain View, CA, 94041

  ONLINE • Pacific Time Zone
  $20

  Join authors Colette Lafia and Carl McColman for a conversation about the nature of the spiritual heart and how it can illuminate the path to greater joy and intimacy with the Divine and life. Drawing from Christian contemplative wisdom, they will share insights from some of their favorite mystics and how these teachings have formed their writing and lives. A guided meditation or contemplative practice will also be offered. This promises to be a heart-centered dialogue and a time to reflect on what it means to have a spiritual worldview.

  Colette Lafia is a San Francisco-based writer, spiritual director, and retreat leader who has a passion for helping people connect more deeply with the presence of the sacred in daily life. She is the author of The Divine Heart: Seven Ways to Live In Love and Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others, named one of the top spiritual books of the year.

  Carl McColman is a contemplative writer, speaker, teacher, soul friend, and storyteller. He is the author of The Big Book of Christian Mysticism, An Invitation to Celtic Wisdom, and Eternal Heart: the Mystical Path to a Joyful Life .

  For more information or to register, click here.

  June 1, 2021

  Colette Lafia, East West Bookshop

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