Dear Friends,

Today I am thrilled to announce that The Heart of Who We Are: realizing freedom together is now available.

Truthfully, it all feels a bit surreal y’all. It’s wild to think that something that has felt so intimate, so close to my heart that it can’t be teased from my heart, is about to be in print—15,000 times over!

This book was such a tremendous journey for me and there were three stickies that were on my wall for 2 years as I toiled, flamed with inspiration, wept, inhaled, exhaled, sang.

1. This book is on horticultural time. (I learned really early on that I couldn’t rush it. Barry Boyce offered me this torch-like wisdom.)

2. Your only job is to love and to let this book pour through this Love. (Something that I found deeply relieving, regularly.)

A Prayer for the Book:

Please Lord,
Let this book be a hymn.
Let it sing with Truth
And uplift all that is holy
Which is the heart of everything.

May it be so.

I hope you will experience The Heart of Who We Are as a unique invitation to the journey of realizing freedom together. I'm particularly delighted to share with you, and humbled by, the collective voices of support for this work. Touching words from many of the people who have influenced this book. The page also reflects some upcoming opportunities to practice through related workshops and retreats.

I’m also thrilled to announce the vision of a Heart of Who We Are book collective (think global book club community) so you can share your path of realizing freedom together with others aspiring to do the same.

So please check it out friends. As you do, please hear my voice. It is quietly saying:

“Welcome. I am so very glad you are here.”

In Peace,
Caverly

Reflection

Saying YES 

I’ve just returned from a week-long New Years Retreat with Presence Collective. It was a profound week in which folks from all different walks of life joined me and jylani ma’at  to release into Rest, Restoration, and Renewal. I especially appreciated how many various pathways to truth were honored. During the retreat, these words arose:

There is no wrong way

to truth.

There is only 

one celebration after another. 

Love overflowing with itself.

Singing yes, outpouring yes, 

exclaiming YES 

to all of it.

Yes to every expression 

of divine possibility – 

divine Love rushing 

through the cells 

of every body 

every heart.

Saying yes to diverse pathways of remembrance – doorways to the knowing of our true nature – provides us with new language to articulate the deepest universal truths. Perennial truths. Saying yes to life can allow us to be freed from the conditioned loop of seeking and resisting. It can spark remembrance of what’s most fundamental: awareness itself. 

Where in your life might you more fully release into the practice of yes? And what needs to be let go of to allow that to be possible?

Transforming Our Relationship to Social Media

Social media can be triggering for many of us. It can provide fuel for the mind of comparison, heightening our sense of unworthiness. It can stimulate fears. What shifts when our social media feeds serve as cleaner mirrors? Ones that reflect our inherent goodness, truth, and uplift us collectively? 

Pausing to Reflect is a practice I offer on Instagram that invites us into a moment of  contemplation. Right in the middle of our feed. Right in the middle of our day. At the end of each of these short musings the invitation is to pause. To allow awareness to come to the forefront of experience rather than rest in the backdrop. These prompts are meant to beckon us into the mind of spaciousness -- the only place insights actually arise. They invite us to disidentify from the conditioning that often is triggered as we scroll. 

Take these as slowly as you wish. Digest. They are meant to be savored. 

You can find more of these practices by following along on Instagram @caverlymorgan 

You can also dive deeper into them by joining me for Sunday Sangha with Sangha Live on December 5, 2021 (11 AM PST/2 PM EST)

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Dear Ones…

Hope is not the dream 

of an imaginary future. 

True hope lies inside 

the reality of what is. 

It’s the turning toward 

possibility 

within what is 

here 

now.

*      *      *

Shed everything that 

keeps you from enjoying 

your own company. 

It’s got nothing for you.

*      *      *

At the end of the day you can only truly take full responsibility for yourself. And taking full responsibility for yourself offers no guarantees regarding how what you do will be received by another. If you allow “the other” to determine how you are doing, a lack of trust in yourself will be reinforced. And if you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?”

*      *      *

If you are getting hurt in the fight

try side-stepping the next punch. 

It takes courage to step outside of the ring.

*      *      *

When the world feels harsh,

when people project onto you,

judge you, criticize you, even hate - 

when they overlook your goodness, 

your inherent goodness,

will you?

Will you have your own back?

Will you hold your precious heart?

Will you remember your goodness?

Will you, love, see you? Know you?

Will you, love, love you?

*      *      *

To suggest

that the ego 

needs to die, 

is to suggest 

that the ego is alive. 

It’s not. 

*      *      *

If you leave your well-being 

in the hands of another

it can be dropped at any time. 

Hold what belongs to you.

Love, 

Caverly

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