Earth & Ember

27/01/2026

"No life is immune from suffering. When we are in solidarity with pain, injustice, war, oppression, colonization—the list goes on and on—we face immense pressure to despair, to become angry or dismissive. When reality is split dualistically between good and bad, right and wrong, we too are torn apart. Yet when we are broken, we are most open to contemplation, or non-dual thinking. We are desperate to resolve our own terror, anger, and disillusionment, and so we allow ourselves to be led into the silence that holds everything together in wholeness.

"...You’ve got to name good and evil and differentiate between right and wrong. You can’t be naive about evil. But if you stay focused on this duality, you’ll go crazy! You’ll become an unlovable, judgmental, dismissive person. I’ve witnessed this pattern in myself. You must eventually find a bigger field, a wider frame, which we call non-dual thinking." --Richard Rohr

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20/01/2026

Many sights around Monteverde may seem like they were generated by AI. They seem too good to be true. But they are. Our spiritual practices help us to go beyond the fake, past mind-generated falsehoods, and to discover beautiful realities within.

Join us July 16-21 and relearn how to see the real.

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03/12/2025

It often seems that our limited language is an impediment to greater spiritual understanding.

21/11/2025

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19/11/2025

“Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.” —Brian McLaren

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10/11/2025

09/11/2025

"Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed — be it ecological, social, demographic or a general breakdown of civilization — will be unavoidable." --Vaclav Havel, 2011

There may be no more pertinent statement for why we have created Earth & Ember as this one by the then newly elected president of Czechoslovakia. Far too often, traditional religion is only interested in outward behavior and intellectual doctrine and dogma. But without true inner transformation that leads to greater wakefulness, introspection, and a self-awareness of our relationship to all life and matter, there will be no change and the world will march on toward one catastrophe after another. And I know, I can never change a single person unless I first work on myself.

Join us to work on this change: www.earthnember.com

30/10/2025

Jesus said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

The only people who can recognize and be ready for what he’s talking about are the ones who come with the mind and heart of a child. The older we get, the more we’ve been betrayed and hurt and disappointed, the more barriers we put up to beginner’s mind. We must never presume that we see. We must always be ready to see anew. But it’s so hard to go back, to be vulnerable, to say to your soul, “I don’t know anything.” …Spirituality is about seeing. It’s not about earning or achieving. —Richard Rohr

20/10/2025

"The only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own self-hood, and enter by Love into union with the Life Who dwells and sings within the essence of every creature and in the core of our own souls." Thomas Merton. What is your liberation plan? Hope to see you in Monteverde. www.earthnember.com

16/10/2025

"The intellect is a beautiful servant, but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity." --Ram Dass

That sense of separateness is merely the mind's old habit.

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15/10/2025

“The airplane moves above the clouds, the clouds are like thoughts … Awareness is above these clouds. … When one realizes the nature of mind, one is no longer affected in any way by the clouds of desire and hatred …” --Konchog Gyaltsen

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14/10/2025

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?" --Thomas Merton

Come to Costa Rica to explore and encounter, to break bread with seeking souls, and to rediscover the truth within you that will save you in these troubled times.

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