HeartLighters

Awakening our heart while living on Earth

Heartlight is a belief-based way of life that chooses what is real and living over what is artificial and deadening. We strive to live from an authentic heart – kind when possible, protective when necessary – honoring the body and the Earth as sacred, with the purpose of restoring light on Earth.

Heartlight is not about escaping this world. We believe we came here on purpose: to bring more light, clarity, and kindness into this reality, through the way we think, feel, eat, work, create, and care for one another.

We are less interested in labels and more interested in how we actually live.

Our Relationship to Other Paths

Heartlight is a way of life, not a demand that everyone walk the same road.

Heartlighters may belong to other religions or none at all. Some experience Heartlight as a spiritual path, some as a philosophy of natural, heart-centered living. We do not claim to be the only way; we simply offer a way that has meaning for us, and welcome those who feel at home in it.

We respect the freedom of each person to listen, question, and choose for themselves.

Who We Are: Heartlighters

Those who live this way of life call ourselves Heartlighters.

Heartlighters are people who:

• Choose living, natural, truthful options wherever possible, instead of artificial and harmful ones.
• See the body not as a prison, but as a living partner in this journey.
• Treat the Earth as a sacred home, not just a resource to be used up.
• Aim to let what is in the heart guide the mind, and let the mind guide wise action.
• Take responsibility for their thoughts, choices, and actions.
• Value kindness, honesty, and courage in everyday life.

We come from many different backgrounds and spiritual stories. Heartlight is not tied to a single culture or tradition. It is a way of living that can sit alongside other faiths, or stand on its own as a personal path.

What We Practice

Heartlight is lived in small, practical choices as much as in big ideas. While every Heartlighter lives this in their own way, many of us share these practices, not because it is a rule, but because our heart guides our actions, thoughts, and choices.

Choosing the living
Favouring living, natural foods and materials; reducing exposure to unnecessary synthetic chemicals; choosing what feels truly alive over what feels empty or artificial. You probably already lean toward direct, inner experience over rigid rules—listening for truth in your own heart, in silence, in nature, and in the small, everyday miracles around you. Being a Heartlighter doesn’t require you to reject all structure; it simply means you trust living wisdom more than empty forms, and you keep choosing what feels genuinely alive, nourishing, and true over what is merely convenient, performative, or artificial.

Honoring the body
Listening to the body’s signals, supporting its ability to heal and adapt, and remembering that how we treat our bodies affects our clarity, mood, and spiritual life. This includes traditional and modern forms of care – rest, nourishing food, movement, natural supports, and, when needed, the skills of trained health professionals. There are no rules here to control your life, a Heartlighter chooses the options that feel right for them, while remembering that every choice shapes the way the body, mind, and spirit move through the world.

Honoring the Earth
Caring for land, water, plants, and animals as relatives, not objects. Practicing sustainability where we can, and remembering that every small act matters. If you are a Heartlighter, then you will already choose, in your own way, to reduce harm where you can, to give back when you are able, and to make everyday choices that reflect gratitude for the land beneath you and the lives that share it with you.

Limiting addictions and compulsions
Becoming more conscious of what we reach for when we are tired, scared, or hurting – substances, screens, habits – and gently choosing paths that lead back to real connection. If you are naturally a Heartlighter, then you already look to improve your life by trying to make conscious decisions and being responsible for your actions and inactions. Over time this becomes a practice of gently catching yourself in old patterns, choosing again, and allowing more real connection—within yourself, with others, and with the living world—to guide your next step.

Heart-to-action living
Letting the heart soften and open, bringing that feeling into the mind, and then into action: how we speak, what we buy, how we treat others, how we respond in conflict. Admitting when we make mistakes, working together to improve, and doing our best to repair harm where we can. For Heartlighters, the goal is not perfection but alignment—allowing the heart to keep reshaping our thoughts, words, and choices so that, little by little, our lives reflect the light we carry inside.

Listening for guidance
Many Heartlighters receive insight through meditation, quiet reflection, prayer, dreams, or visions. We treat these experiences with respect and discernment, allowing them to guide us without demanding that others see the world in exactly the same way. Our goal is to draw more enlightenment into our lives – not to ascend and leave this place, but to restore awareness and light within the earth-plane itself. We are here to live fully, bring clarity where there is confusion, and help this world remember that it, too, is a living, sacred expression of light.

Circles: How Heartlight Moves Into the World

We describe our outreach projects and practical expressions of this way of life as Circles. Each Circle is a different way of bringing Heartlight values into everyday life.

Three of our Circles include:

Sunshine Circle: A gathering of those wish to live more naturally, and share this journey with others to improve our existence here on Earth through community, encouragement, and shared practice. Sunshine Circle creates gentle spaces for Heartlighters and friends to gather – whether for conversation, learning, meditation, music, or simple togetherness – and to remember they are not walking this path alone. It is a welcoming doorway for those who value kindness, natural living, and personal responsibility, offering support as we bring more warmth, clarity, and light into our everyday lives.

Alywillow: Another circle within the spiral of Heartlight living – creating hundreds of ways to care for skin, hair, and home with plant-based, no synthetic options, and to live more gently and respectfully with the Earth. It is one practical doorway for Heartlighters and friends who want to align their daily routines with their values.

Jolly Raven Café: Focused on food, gathering, and community. Jolly Raven Café Circle centers on nourishment – creating spaces where people can share food, conversation, and music in ways that reflect Heartlight principles: real food, real connection, and a sense of warmth and welcome.

Over time, other Circles may grow around music, meditation, education, youth programs, or service – all guided by the same simple question: Does this help bring more real, living light into the world?

Why We Are Here

We believe this world is not beyond hope.

Heartlight exists because some of us remember – in our bones, in our dreams, in the quiet moments – that life can be more honest, more kind, more connected, and more alive than what many of us were taught to accept.

By choosing what is real and living, by honoring body and Earth, and by living from an authentic heart, we are doing our small part to restore light on Earth.

If this resonates with something inside you, you may already be a Heartlighter.