Mark Burrows
Mark S. Burrows is much sought-after as a retreat leader and speaker on mysticism and poetry as well as spirituality and the arts. In 2021, he founded and continues to lead a popular online program, “the Julian Circle,” with monthly Zoom gatherings that encourage participants to live into the wholistic wisdom of Julian’s “showings.” A teacher, scholar and award-winning poet and translator of German poetry, his recent popular books include three collections of meditative poems inspired by Eckhart’s writings, most recently Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light (winner of the 2024 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Medal). Other recent publications include You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke, co-written with Stephanie Dowrick (2024). A member of the Iona Community, he lives and writes in Camden, ME. For more about him: www.soul-in-sight.org
Upcoming Programs by Mark Burrows
Finding Wholeness in the Midst of Everything with Julian of Norwich
We all long to be gladdened by what Julian of Norwich imagined as the inner music of love in our lives. She knew that the melodies that shape us—some in the major key, some in a jarring, discordant minor—are part of a larger symphony, if we learn to listen deeply enough. Julian described this as […]
The Wisdom of Elder Poets: A Hybrid Evening
The Way It Is: The Wisdom of Elder Poets As A Call to Transformative Living “So, the world happens twice— once what we see it as, second it legends itself deep, the way it is.” —William Stafford This retreat introduces poems written later in life by a selection of contemporary poets. Their gifts of wisdom, […]
The Way It Is: The Wisdom of Elder Poets
The Way It Is: The Wisdom of Elder Poets As A Call to Transformative Living “So, the world happens twice— once what we see it as, second it legends itself deep, the way it is.” —William Stafford This retreat introduces poems written later in life by a selection of contemporary poets. Their gifts of wisdom, […]
Discovering The Deep Wisdom of Meister Eckhart: A Hybrid Evening
“The eye with which I see God and the eye with which God sees me are one eye: one seeing, one knowing, one loving.” -Meister Eckhart What would it mean to live into simplicity to the point that “all things become God” for you? This startling claim, made by the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart, addresses […]
Living In Simplicity: Discovering The Deep Wisdom of Meister Eckhart
“The eye with which I see God and the eye with which God sees me are one eye: one seeing, one knowing, one loving.” -Meister Eckhart What would it mean to live into simplicity to the point that “all things become God” for you? This startling claim, made by the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart, addresses […]