The focused quality of presence that transforms awareness into a doorway to conscious participation in reality.
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...
Allow this teaching from the Hermetica—The Key—to settle in the body and soul. The key turns when the will quiets, the senses rest, and the mind consents to be seen by the Good. That’s the path ‘up the mount.’ What follows is a quiet prose companion; a gentle soaking...
“These laws of the Work cannot remain forms of blind external obedience but become things that you acknowledge and understand and eventually will for yourself.” Maurice Nicoll The True Nature of Obedience "Obedience means ob-audere, listen to the depths, or listen...
Evening Blessings as the day draws to its gentle close … Beloved vessel of light,May you stand as the still point between the tides,rooted in the unshakeable ground of I am.In this tender hour between day and night,pause... and remember what you have been today,the...
"The passions divide the heart. They render it incapable of reflecting the cosmic heart.” Cynthia Bourgeault Attachment to matter gives birth to passion without an Image of itself because it is drawn from that which is contrary to its higher nature. The result is that...
The paradox of spiritual discernment through sensation is at the heart of these teachings. What seems most material and worldly (our physical sensations) becomes a refined spiritual instrument. These passages reveal sensation as both ‘wound and healing’--both exposure...
“Contemplation happens when silence morphs into presence.” Thomas Keating The Nature of Silence as Presence "Silence is the sign of real contact with the spiritual world and this contact, in turn, always engenders the influx of forces. This is the foundation of all...
“One of the spiritual practices which spiritual teachers teach over and over and over again is attention. It's the ability to just say no to all interior self-preoccupation and commentary, which is pulling you out of the moment.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Sacred Nature...