The Valley is a resource and sanctuary for those beholden to the ordinary callings of days: for those numberless others who are moved by goodness, and who participate gently and intentionally in caring for and contributing to the animate beauty of our world.
The Valley and its brethren recognize seasonality and uncertainty, illness and grief, and the mutable beauty of creative cycles. We make no promises of liberation, salvation, enlightenment, or healing. We anchor a deepening peace.
The Devotions of the Valley
We open ourselves to unknowing, and refrain from claims of authority and pretensions to absolute truth.
We honor the wisdom of the soma, treating physical expression, touch, and sensory pleasure with dignity and respect. We hold the body as inherently sacred.
We understand consciousness as inherently relational, emerging in reciprocal kinships with the land, its beings, and each other.
We value silence as a living intelligence, cultivating periods free from entertainment and speech so our perception can deepen and ease.
We recognize goodness and beauty as necessary nourishments. We create and care for spaces of tenderness, openness, and peace.
We seek and practice forms of creativity and craft that express dignity, interiority, and care. Our work is the realization of love.
We practice compassion in being with and companioning ourselves and others. We honor this world as home.
We recognize rest as essential. Solitude, retreat, darkness and sleep are valuable in their own right.
The native inhabitants to the Valley include outsider artists, botanical caregivers, independent scholars, spiritual refugees, radical contemplatives, unsung poets, reluctant intuitives, would-be monks, peripatetic wanderers, and all those who practice depth and tender connection through the overlapping rings of our lives.
solvitur ambulando.
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