October 2025 Newsletter
The Heart Remembers the Way Home
The Heart Remembers the Way Home
Dear Ones,
I’ve just recently returned from eight luminous days of silent meditation with my teacher, Thomas Hübl—a journey into the kind of vast, timeless spaciousness that can only be discovered when we truly slow down, soften, and listen within. In the stillness, something ancient awakens: a deeper rhythm of life that is always present, yet so often drowned out by the noise of our busy minds and restless culture. I feel compelled to share some of this experience with you, in the hope that it might spark your own reflection and remind you of the quiet wisdom that lies within your own heart.
I’ve just recently returned from eight luminous days of silent meditation with my teacher, Thomas Hübl—a journey into the kind of vast, timeless spaciousness that can only be discovered when we truly slow down, soften, and listen within. In the stillness, something ancient awakens: a deeper rhythm of life that is always present, yet so often drowned out by the noise of our busy minds and restless culture. I feel compelled to share some of this experience with you, in the hope that it might spark your own reflection and remind you of the quiet wisdom that lies within your own heart.
In that stillness, I remembered something ancient—an echo of eternal silence that has been tracing our footsteps through millennia. And within that silence came a revelation: everything we long for—healing for our lives, love for our families, peace for our world—is not in some imagined future or remembered past. It is here, now, pulsing in the radiant epicenter of our hearts.
The words we speak and the thoughts we think are like seeds. If they are born from the scintillating and seductive neon glare of our culture’s endless chase for acquisition, achievement, and the shallow symbols of power and greed, they plant fields of restlessness, resentment, separation, and envy that leave us weary, burdened, and unfulfilled. Always chasing after the next thing we believe will make us happy, but leaving us exhausted, disappointed, and longing for something real.
But if we are willing to stop racing toward what we imagine will bring happiness, success, or belonging, and instead pause to feel the earth beneath our feet, the breath moving through our bodies, and the quiet stirrings of the soul, we remember: it all begins in the heart. When we drop out of the endless chatter of the mind and into the embrace of the life we’ve already been given, the treasures reveal themselves—joy as our birthright, belonging as the natural fruit of community, and peace as the eternal flame glowing in the sanctuary of stillness.
For too long, the head has tried to rule what belongs to the heart—the true sovereign of the soul. What would it feel like to return the crown to its rightful place? To rest in the quiet sovereignty of our divine essence? To walk the inner path with tenderness—moment by moment, breath by breath, embrace by embrace? Perhaps this is the longing that has been quietly calling you home all along.
Becoming a Walking Answer to the Questions of Our Lives
What if the path is not about striving, fixing, or chasing answers, but about opening—again and again—to the great mystery of life? What if the soul is shaped not by achievement, but by our willingness to dwell in the depths of the questions themselves?
Thomas spoke of becoming a walking question—allowing the struggles, challenges, and longings passed down from our families, ancestors, and culture to live in us, not as burdens to be solved, but as invitations to deepening presence. Each of us carries unique questions: How do I belong? Am I worthy of love? What does it mean to live in right relationship with myself and others?
Rather than exhausting ourselves in pursuit of solutions, or waging war against the barriers that seem to bind us in repetition, what if we simply rested with these questions—let them breathe in the spaciousness of our hearts? To relax into the unresolved is to allow life itself to shape us.
Rainer Maria Rilke reminds us: “Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
When we learn to hold the questions with reverence rather than resistance, the heart begins to burn with a quiet illumination. We discover that stillness itself is the ignitor, and that the answers we sought have always been flowering within the mystery of our own becoming.
I invite you to join me in relaxing into the great inquiry—softening into the mystery, allowing yourself to become a walking question. In this tender openness, life itself might surprise you, revealing the quiet brilliance that has always been within. Step gently, and watch as the true shape of your soul unfolds—radiant, whole, and beautifully your own.
With infinite love and gratitude,
michael
michael
