The focused quality of presence that transforms awareness into a doorway to conscious participation in reality.
“Only when you have come to know your true Self will you be fully known—realizing at last that you are a child of the Living One.” Yeshua, Logion 3, Gospel of Thomas The Ancient Call to Inwardness ♪ ♪ “Keep within, keep within, and when they say look here or look...
“Apophatic practice really corresponds to a different, much more unboundaried self.” Cynthia Bourgeault Beyond the Faculties “One of the basic lines of division when you’re talking about spiritual theology are apophatic and cataphatic. And cataphatic practices and...
WB: These teachings on what love is are gathered from a single Wisdom School on Conscious Love in 2001. Cynthia grounds these teachings in everyday practice, and they form a counterpart to the more cosmological teachings on the Energy of Love. The Nature of Conscious...
Spiritual awakening: “Heaven is not a place that you die into, but a place that you awaken to, and you awake now, and you awake in the next moment, and the next moment, and the next moment.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Foundation of Spiritual Awakening “The obedient mind...
A brief pause from within the field of Good: Self alignment. Orientation Attention rests as allowance, as a form of consent.Nothing is forced open, Nothing shut.Attention simply stays. And staying becomes prayer. Morning AlignmentI offer my...
The Practice of Being Still "♪ ♪ Stillness, deep deep within us. In small beginnings it flows into the living waters. The ocean of God, through our stillness, God moves. ♪ ♪ " Paulette Meier "And so through our stillness, through our joy may stillness move,...
a poem of Wisdom from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault I take up the shards of this new day. I accept the constraints that hold me together. I offer this shape to the Original Light. I stand ready for the radiance to shine through. Logion 29Yeshua says...If flesh...
Mindful Intention from the Wisdom teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault and the Gospel of Thomas Your will is yours to offer—‘mine’ becoming ‘thine.’Today calls for quiet effort,attention turned inward.Surrender is your active choice.Receptivity, your creative act.Come into...
“The wellsprings of life are bubbling up anew each moment.” Thomas Kelly, Quaker mystic and scholar, from A Testament of Devotion (1941) Disowning the False Self to Find the Wellspring "[Meister Eckhart] writes, that after a time of kind of disorder and searching and...
from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault on conscious presence The Wide Space of Present MomentMay you rest knowingthat today you practicedthe hardest thing:standing inside yourself.May the moments when attentionwas not lost to its objectbut held free and presenthave...
The inner Alchemy of consenting to be a vessel. Not for certainty, not for ease, but for the quiet work of transformation. A Benediction for the Willing Vessel May you stand where the old unravels and the new is not yet formed, not turning away, consenting to be...
A good evening blessing as the day settles into its source. ✨Evening Benediction: Movement in Stillness ✨ May the hush of this hour gather all that stirs in you.May your willingness prepare the wayfor what longs to live through you.May you feel the day settling into...