Spiritual Misfits Quotes

“It is all the dance. It is all God.”
― Shahar Rabi, Spiritual Misfits: Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World

“Friends and our parasympathetic nervous system”: I had a few friends visiting us yesterday and I noticed how quickly my nervous system settled down once we all sat on the couch and started talking. Upon reflecting, here are two point of what I took from this: 1. When we have (good) friends around, we cant check our emails, talk to our partners about financial issues, worry about the future or get busy. Our friends ask us to bring our attention to the here and now experience. 2. Our friends help us to remember our interdependent nature. That we belong to something that is bigger then just our spouse and children. That we are tribal. Both these points have to do with our “social” part of our parasympathetic nervous system, especially the Ventral Vagal complex- which is how we slow ourselves enough to Establish connections.”
― Shahar Rabi, Spiritual Misfits: Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World

“My new book Spiritual misfits will offer you tools and skills to establish trauma-informed methods to develop long lasting and sustainable spiritual communities. It will engage you in deep and meaningful dialogue about the future intersection of faith, psychology and science and bring home the essential preliminary practices that are needed in todays diverse and complex world to build connections, enhance safety, and embody the heart of your contemplative life.”
― Shahar Rabi, Spiritual Misfits: Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World

“Shadow does not have substance.
It diminishes with awareness and clarity”
― Shahar Rabi, Spiritual Misfits: Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World

“What we are witnessing is the failure of humanistic, postmodern, and pluralistic worldviews to see beyond the horizon of their own worldview.”
― Shahar Rabi , Spiritual Misfits: Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World

“We are about to spiral into a higher tier capacity while actually turning back into the beginning of our journey as humans. The same journey our ancestors took more than 50,000 years ago is now being asked of you to be walked again, but this time with an awareness of all that has come before you.”
― Shahar Rabi, Spiritual Misfits: Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World

“Being misplaced, even by choice, is so very difficult on our body and soul. In my case, I still long for what, once, I took for granted— That immediacy of culture and belonging. And for those who did not choose — So many are forced to be misplaced in our world today! Some are misplaced even in the lands that they were born on, striped away by cultural warfare, greed and ignorance. I wish for us to know this void in each other— To witness it for one another so we would be able to imagine a new, WHOLE, body.”
― Shahar Rabi, Spiritual Misfits: Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World

“We live in a truly uncommon age of integration. Vast amounts of knowledge are being organized and integrated in ground-breaking, systematic ways. All over the world, people are creating revolutionary models of spiritual, psychological, ecological, and cultural ways of operating, all trying to provide solutions to our current local and global crises. These are bridges to a worldview that many are sensing is coming—one where truth can be universal, relative, and developmental all at once. Each generation has an opportunity to participate in the creative, co-evolutionary unfolding of reality. Now it is our turn.”
― Shahar Rabi, Spiritual Misfits: Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World