Key teachings from this modern mystic on contemplative practice, the Wisdom tradition, and non-dual awareness.
A poem of Wisdom on the fullness of time, from teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault One Small LampThe InnocenceThe old man kneelsbefore the child of seven days.Before separation and belonging,before the long way home.The Outward JourneyTen steps out.Chronos ticks.The...
“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...
What is Worry? “Every time you say ‘I am so worried,’ you give energy to it. You should not speak your worry.” Maurice Nicoll, Informal Work Talks and Teachings 1940-1950, p132. “QUESTION: What is worry? Does the Work say anything about worrying? How can it be...
WB: This Impression is a very deep, rich, and advanced curation of Cynthia Bourgeault’s synthesis of three massive cosmological systems (Boehme, Gurdjieff, Teilhard) around a single fundamental question in spiritual work: What is the energy of love? A previous...
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...
“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],...
A wisdom poem on the origin of evil Keeper of the Shards: a Cycle of Consent OrientationA heart holds what opposes.Without collapse, without erasure.The still point, where friction births manifestation.This is true.Evil loose in the streets.The window shatters on the...
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...
Giving is Receiving, from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault May I wake to the great exchange,the mercy that circulatesas a field of giving and receiving.Origin made visible.May I remember todaythat grace falls like dewwhile my conscious labor rises—the loop...
“Spiritual sacrifice means to make holy. Make holy means to make whole.” Cynthia Bourgeault Three Sacred Vows “It is a matter of sacrificing the three powers of the soul to heaven. This sacrifice is nothing other than the three traditional and universal...
A Morning Intention on Practicing Gratitude from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault. I wake todayto the transforming forceof genuine gratitude.I will find, in whatever comes,one small thingto hold and welcome—turning tightness into space,closure into breath.My first...