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

*      *      *

Book Deal with Sounds True and MNDFL Certification and Training

Book Deal with Sounds True!

Dear friends,

I’m humbled and honored to announce that I’m officially in contract with Sounds True! I’ve envisioned writing a book for adults for years—well over a decade in fact.

I’ll never forget, five years ago after speaking at a mindfulness conference, the warm person who approached me with their business card. They said they worked for a publishing company and that they were from acquisitions. I wasn’t clear what that meant at the time! (Thank you Barnaby Willett for spelling it out after they walked away.)

For years I flirted with this offer. Something always seemed to get in the way. Peace in Schools required a tremendous amount from me during those years and the book was never begun. (Although I see now that this book has been unfolding ever since the original vision, I simply never wrote anything down until now!)

Several years ago, after being on a panel with Rev. angel Kyodo Williams at the Mind and Life Institute, I was approached again. A different person, a different publishing company. The knock on the door was clear. I could not ignore it. I could no longer justify any excuses. I began working on a book proposal.

The process has been a bit sporadic and the learning curve has been huge. Thank goodness for the great coaching from Michelle Cassandra Johnson. The cherished support of Barry Boyce. Rebecca Jamieson’s help in the proposal process. Tips from Mirabai and Loch. Rupert Spira’s love.

The biggest game changer came from a conversation with Justin Michael Williams. He told me about his original mentor. I was in my little meditation room. As he spoke, I realized my leg was resting on a book by his teacher—which I had just read a passage from in the gathering I facilitated that morning!

Justin pointed me in a new direction which leads me to now: A book deal with Sounds True! Working title: Collective Liberation.

I look forward to sharing more with you as this process continues to unfold. It’s been an exciting blend of daunting and exciting. The contract is signed. This is happening. Wanted to share the good news and thank you all for your support. This project cannot and will not happen alone. Feeling grateful for community.

Thank you for being part of mine.

MNDFL Certification and Training

I’m delighted to be one of the facilitators for the newest offering from MNDFL - Certification and Training.

We’ve just launched!

My dear friends and colleagues David Perrin and Rev. angel Kyodo Williams are the architects. This certification is designed for those seeking to deepen their experience of mindfulness, or facilitate it as part of work, family, and community life. At the heart of this program is a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion that supercedes trends and buzzwords. Already the training is magnetizing the most diverse and representative gathering of mindfulness practitioners I’ve ever witnessed.

David Perrin (who also teaches through Presence Collective) said it best:
"To say that these are tumultuous times is only cliché if you don’t have a reflective, contemplative, spiritual or some such approach. Those of you interested in deepening this approach, in opening yourself rather than shutting down, choosing to feel rather than numb, and acting on behalf of love and service will discover the courage and strength needed to move forward. I’m sure of it.”

We’d love to have you join us!

Because of my role in the program, I'm happy to be able to offer you a discount. If you use the "Learn More" link below and enter the coupon code "CAVERLY10" upon checkout, you’ll get a 10% discount off both the Practicum and Full Certification tracks.