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SUMMARY:Jeannie Zandi ~ Love’s Homing Device: The Role of Longing in Spirituality
DESCRIPTION:Within all our longings lies the greatest longing of all: to know ourselves as whole and divine. \nBeneath the hunger for relationship\, recognition\, comfort\, certainty\, or belonging\, lies the gravitational pull of the heart toward home. It can feel like a homesickness for something we cannot name or define.  \nMany spiritual traditions have understood longing not as a problem\, but as part of the path itself. The ache of the heart can become a kind of homing device\, orienting us toward what is most essential and alive. Yet in everyday life\, we can lose touch with this living pull\, or attempt to satisfy it through things that can never fully meet it. \nIn this gathering\, we will explore the sacred role of longing and love in spiritual life. We will look at the ways longing opens us\, motivates us\, and calls us beyond the pleasures of the earthly realm toward something more sublime. We will explore the relationship between longing and devotion\, yearning and surrender\, heartbreak and opening\, and the mysterious way love itself can become a guide. \nAbout Jeannie Zandi\nJeannie Zandi is a nondual spiritual teacher and guide for embodied awakening\, inviting students to fully inhabit their human lives with presence\, clarity\, and love. Known for her fierce tenderness\, irreverent wisdom\, and unwavering presence\, she creates powerful spaces for transformation\, where truth is met in the raw\, and awakening moves beyond concept into lived reality. \nHer work bridges the mystical and the practical\, inviting students to embrace every aspect of experience—joy\, challenge\, and the mundane—as fuel for awakening. Rather than transcending life\, she calls us to root in it\, maturing into authentic expressions of love\, serving the whole with wisdom and heart. \nwww.jeanniezandi.com \nSliding Scale: $15 to $40\nNo one turned away for lack of funds.\nIf you can’t pay within the sliding scale\, just contact us to let us know what you can contribute.\nAddress inquiries to web@opencirclecenter.org \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.\nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/jeannie-zandi-july-12-2026/
LOCATION:Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)
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