by William Britten | Consent Cycles, Wisdom Teachings |
The idea of ground truth inspired by the Benedictine rule of Ora et Labora Orientation There is a doorbetween heart and work.One consent. The garden waits at dawn.You enter. Morning Alignment In the meeting placebetween sinew and soil,the door stays open.You...
by William Britten | Gospel of Philip, Wisdom Teachings |
Philip thinks in correspondences and images … and he doesn’t explain the correspondence. The Gospel of Philip sayings are short poetic statements—mappings of movement at different densities, levels, scales. Read them with a slow attention that lets a...
by William Britten | Reciprocal Feeding, Cynthia Bourgeault, Maurice Nicoll, Wisdom Teachings |
“In the Lords Prayer there are innumerable ideas. Each phrase has inner octaves.” Maurice Nicoll Sacred Gestures of Exchange “Many people have observed that when you say the Lord’s Prayer you look at how exchange is so much a part of it. This becomes...
by William Britten | Imaginal Realm, Cynthia Bourgeault, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff, Gospel of Thomas |
“Our experience seems to be governed by the law of linear time and linear causality and so it looks like things come to us from some place that doesn’t exist yet which we call the future.” Cynthia Bourgeault Beyond Linear Time: The Spatial Reality “When you get deeply...
by William Britten | Poems-Benedictions-Intentions, Good, Wisdom Teachings |
Alignment with Good distilled into morning intentions. A Tree in the Field Today I align with the Good that is present.I stand rooted within it.I allow what is true to radiate. I trust the fruit of this day to arise in its own moment. So be it.—...