Being has to do with Goodness. With Good in your Being, you will be able to understand and live the Wisdom Teachings and not merely know them.
“You are the veil that hides the paradise you seek” The spiritual veil is our tendency to make everything external or transactional. The Paradox of Finite Being Not sin, but the weight and density of created finite being-ness itself. "[Rafe] was the one who was...
“When the mind comes into the heart, the new operating system of nonduality kicks in.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Multiplicity of Ordinary Being "Not one of you here has a real permanent, unchanging 'I'. Not one of you here has real unity of being. All of you are nothing...
"The higher creates the lower on every successive level in the Great Chain of Being.” Maurice Nicoll Recognition of Higher and Lower "All esotericism begins with the idea that there is something higher. Exoteric systems, such as religions, say that this something...
“The witnessing selfhood, or Imaginal selfhood, is of a lighter density: contained, non-identified, collected, balanced, and gathered.” Cynthia Bourgeault A Missing Name for Subtle Selfhood “There is a selfhood, just as there is subtle perception, there’s also subtle...
Nightly blessings from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault May you rest knowing the veil of your finitude is the form through which the infinite learns to touch,without consuming.May the bounded love you offered,pressed tight within the day's limits,have glowed more...
“The vow of poverty is to live as much from the word which comes from the mouth of God as from the bread which enters the mouth of man.” Meditations on the Tarot The Foundation: True Poverty as Receptivity “The vow of poverty is the practice of inner emptiness, which...
“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...
“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...
Poetry about wisdom for the peacemaker inside For the Journey: a Consent Cycle ORIENTATIONThree companions for the way: lantern, mantle, staff.Light enough for the next step. Warmth kept close. Ground that can be met.I do not know the distance. I carry what is...
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...
“Feel the impact of your finitude, not as your ego having failed, but just the sense that you are the veil that hides the paradise you seek.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Divine Instrument "This wonderful, wonderful metaphor in number 27 [from Forty Questions of the Soul],...
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,...