God of Love

Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author, internationally acclaimed speaker, and interspiritual teacher. In 2020, she was honored on Watkins’ list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. Drawing from 20 years of teaching Philosophy and World Religions and a lifetime of practice, Mirabai shares her wisdom worldwide on contemplative living, writing as a spiritual practice, and the transformational power of grief and loss. She has authored over a dozen books including Wild Mercy, Caravan of No Despair, and renowned translations of sacred literature. Her most recent book, Ordinary Mysticism, has been praised by Anne Lamott as “a gorgeous, transformative, welcoming book is for anyone who longs to feel more present, more alive, more joyful and aware of the holiness of daily life.” She lives with her extended family in the mountains of northern New Mexico. For more, visit www.mirabaistarr.com.

Gregory Boyle, SJ is an American Jesuit priest and founder and director of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, California, the world’s largest gang intervention and rehabilitation program. He’s also the author of the New York Times Bestseller, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, and several other books.

“As an artist of words, Mirabai Starr’s invitation is not to a path of perfection born of practices of dry rigor. She is a light we can see by, that points beyond herself, to the wholeness that awaits. We find our true selves then in loving and compassionate action.” —Gregory Boyle, New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart

“Mirabai Starr, an intrepid explorer of spiritual terrain, invites us to travel with her through space and time, from the deserts of ancient Israel to the rural towns where Jesus of Nazareth walked, from South Asia of the Buddha to the East European forests of the Baal Shem Tov, from Rumi in thirteenth century Persia to our own contemporaries, seeking new visions. Then she drops in comments like this: ‘I find that the language of drugs, sex, and rock and roll can be just as revelatory and holy as the canon of any established religious tradition.’ Taking us into her confidence, she writes with energy, passion, and insight, of her own searches, failures, distractions, and discoveries. And since this is a book we’re likely to return to often, I cannot help adding one more: how Spanish Catholic mystic Teresa of Avila, descended from a family of conversos, writes that ‘the important thing to do is not to think much, but to love much, and so to do whatever best awakens you to love.’” —Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, author of The Gnostic Gospels, The Origin of Satan, and many other books

“Mirabai Starr is a Jewish woman whose love of the God of Love led her to a baptism that washed away the masks of god, revealing the I AM happening as every I, the Self that is every self, the singular Divine Face that is your face and her face and every face of every being. Her book God of Love is a dangerous book because love is a dangerous power. Reading it is your baptism in the name of the Nameless One Who Is All.” —Rabbi Rami Shapiro, author of Love and the Bible