Living from Good

A Journey Through Wisdom Teachings

Cynthia Bourgeault : Maurice Nicoll : Gospel of Thomas : Meditations on the Tarot

What You Might Find Here

Living from Good is a contemplative exploration synthesizing wisdom teachings through a “Lectio Harmonia” approach – discovering resonance among wisdom traditions for conscious spiritual development and practical contemplative living.

The material gathered here is my ongoing personal curation of the body of teachings from the four Wisdom sources noted above, as well as others. The orientation could be called mystical spirituality, esoteric Christianity, or just plain timeless wisdom.

My aim is to bring together the patterns and harmonies I have found in these great teachings in a way that makes them more accessible. The Wisdom belongs to all who seek to know themselves truly. I hope one day this gift might pass to my children, and to their children, like a candle lighting other candles across time.

Relief for a restless world. Grounded, deep, ancient.

William Britten

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Lectio Harmonia

Lectio Harmonia

Lectio Harmonia I offer the term ‘Lectio Harmonia’ to describe a contemplative practice of discovering resonance among Wisdom teachings. In Greek philosophy, Harmonia referred to the underlying order and unity…

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Time and timeless

The Beginning

My personal exploration of Wisdom spirituality. May 2024 There is a sense that life is like a Parable or a Gospel of Thomas Logion or Desert Saying—these ancient forms that…

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daily poem

Effort and Grace

A daily poem from the Wisdom teachings of Valentin Tomberg Effort and Grace: a Consent Cycle Orientation Grace falls like rain on open ground.Effort is the sash lifted,the curtain billowing.…

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Forgive us of our debts

Debts and Forgiveness

“It is said: ’Forgive us of our debts as we forgive our debtors.’ Feeling you are owed, feeling debts, stops everything. You hold back yourself and you hold back the…

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spiritual surrender

The Dyer 

A harmonic Impression on spiritual surrender to Divine permeation.  Yeshua says…Whoever drinks what flows from my mouthwill come to be as I amand I also will come to be as…

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Tonglen — Breathing Grace

Tonglen: Breathing Grace

“The practice of Tonglen, a healing practice that puts your heart where your mind is. Breathe in the pain … Breathe out blessing.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Given Gift “Air is…

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Cynthia Bourgeault

“The timeless wisdom that comes to us from another realm when we wake up is what we know as the future”

Cynthia Bourgeault

“Get to know what meets you. There is a personal aspect to the universal laws”

Maurice Nicoll

“Your Being attracts your life”

Cynthia Bourgeault

“The head will never get the motions that the body gets naturally. Surrender, obedience, attention. You can’t do equanimity in your head!”

Gospel of Thomas

Logion 42
Yeshua says…
Come into being as you pass away.

Cynthia Bourgeault

“When you remove judgement, what’s left is compassion, not indifference”

Cynthia Bourgeault

“Good is the alchemical property resulting from struggle.  It’s the quality of your Being that you offer up.”

Maurice Nicoll

“Goodness is of Being and knowledge is of mind”

Gospel of Thomas

Logion 67
Yeshua says…
If you come to know all, and yet you yourself are lacking, you have missed everything.

Cynthia Bourgeault

“Meaning is not explanation, it’s resonance”

Maurice Nicoll

“As we are raised in Being, meaning is transformed. If we fall back, the old meanings return.”

Cynthia Bourgeault

“You can’t move the plank you’re standing on!  Sensation can be moved easier than emotion or story”

Maurice Nicoll

“Transformation does not lie along the horizontal but is a necessity in the vertical”

Cynthia Bourgeault

“Start building a nest where your witnessing presence can live”

Maurice Nicoll

“If you don’t observe yourself, you can never change”

Gospel of Thomas

Logion 41
Yeshua says…
To the one who has something in hand,
more will be given.
To the one whose hands hold nothing,
even that “nothing” will be taken away.

“Good is the alchemical property resulting from struggle.  It’s the quality of your Being that you offer up.”

Cynthia Bourgeault

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