“These laws of the Work cannot remain forms of blind external obedience but become things that you acknowledge and...
Obedience
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Attention
The focused quality of presence that transforms awareness into a doorway to conscious participation in reality.
Evening Blessings: The Sacred Vessel
Evening Blessings as the day draws to its gentle close … Beloved vessel of light,May you stand as the still point...
The Passions
"The passions divide the heart. They render it incapable of reflecting the cosmic heart.” Cynthia Bourgeault...
Spiritual Discernment through Sensation
The paradox of spiritual discernment through sensation is at the heart of these teachings. What seems most material...
Silence Into Presence
“Contemplation happens when silence morphs into presence.” Thomas Keating The Nature of Silence as Presence "Silence...
Spiritual Practices: Attention
“One of the spiritual practices which spiritual teachers teach over and over and over again is attention. It's the...
Attention in the Heart
“Attention in the heart, in the great tradition of Orthodox Hesychasm, praying from the heart.” Cynthia...
Becoming Present to a Higher Vibrational State
"Presence is an energy, a spiritual substance, a very, very precious subtle substance. But we squander it."...
Attention and Surrender
Quotes representing a core idea that flows through Cynthia Bourgeault’s teachings: the basic gestures of gathering and...
Self Remembering
"You can think of Self Remembering as a kind of lifting oneself up from the uproar of things in oneself." Maurice...