The focused quality of presence that transforms awareness into a doorway to conscious participation in reality.
“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 necessary in order to breathe and to live. Is not the air which surrounds us a perfect...
a Consent Cycle poem from the teachings of Valentin Tomberg's Meditations on the Tarot Breath of God: a Consent Cycle ORIENTATION The breath arrives whether I notice or not. I did not earn the wind. I cannot hold it. What if my yes is the offering met....
A daily intention from the Wisdom teachings: May you walk into this morning,treating every interruptionas unlikely ground,where presence might take root.Go gently. Logion 113His students asked him,"On what day will the kingdom arrive? ""Its coming cannot be perceived...
“If you say yes, if you show up, be present, you will be cared for and you will receive assistance, and your spiritual journey will unfold.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Fundamental Commitment “If you show up, you have a responsibility to be present. Choose what you show up...
“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...