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.
"The long arc of evolution bends toward human consciousness." Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Consciousness "Consciousness and Conscience are similar in their respective spheres, one being in the Intellectual Center, the other in the Emotional Center. Consciousness...
“The quality of your transformed work, your striving, your sincerity, your generous heart in being willing to offer yourself this way is indeed food for the angels.” Cynthia Bourgeault Divine Nature as Generosity "You're awake, but awake to what? You don't know....
“The Quakers taught a practice of welcoming that inner light of conscience when it entered, standing still in it, submitting to it." The Nature of Conscience as Inner Light "Direct communication between intelligence and wisdom is, truth to tell, only the development...
The more that you have a truly humble spirit in the old monastic sense, the more you become free. “It's the gentle laying down of self, the humble work, the not asking for visions, the not asking for illuminations, not even caring if anybody notices that you exist....
Spiritual intuition results from the intimate and profound alliance of intelligence and spontaneous wisdom. “Time, all our times, are contained in something bigger—a space. The fullness of time becomes space, a vast, gentle wideness in which all possible outcomes, all...
The term Deputy-Steward in Maurice Nicoll’s writings describes a crucial stage in the development of states of consciousness. “You can be the same person every day if you like, or you can wish to be different. You can go on submitting to negative emotions,...
“The real goal in mature spiritual practice is not to replace negativity with positivity, but to develop an impartiality." Cynthia Bourgeault “Don’t correct back to positivity if what you want is equanimity” Cynthia Bourgeault “The creating sun in myself, the...
The Beatitudes: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. “The key to this fourth beatitude lies in understanding what the word righteousness means. To our post-Puritan, post-Victorian ears, righteousness is a synonym for...
What does Blessed are the poor in spirit mean in terms of finding the place between opposites? “We must realize that we live on this planet between the Opposites. Our whole lives, ordinarily, are governed by the Law of the Pendulum. We all swing to and fro. When you...
What is faith? Is there a deeper meaning of faith? Maurice Nicoll and Cynthia Bourgeault offer insight. “Faith is necessary to open a part of the mind not opened by the senses. To realize scale means to realize that there are different levels of meaning. Literal...
Our level of Being attracts our life—and prayers of silence from our Being attract the response from above. The Original Purpose of Prayer "Prayer was originally to ask for help to lift one to a higher level of consciousness. The Lord's Prayer is designed to make a...
Being present is to put the attention in the now. Essential Nature of Presence "The essence of the spiritual process is sustaining presence. Presence is our essential Self. It is a space to be filled by the qualities of Spirit—qualities such as love, generosity,...