Key teachings from this modern mystic on contemplative practice, the Wisdom tradition, and non-dual awareness.
The single eye unites two ways of seeing: the inner eye gazing into eternity and the outer eye engaging worldly wonders, creating unity of vision. "The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light; but if thine...
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...
Shock points are a cosmological thin place where exchange between the worlds occurs with particular intensity, according to the Law of Seven. Cynthia Bourgeault The Law of Seven and Hesitation Points "Gurdjieff's Law of Seven says basically there are two hesitation...
Inspired by the Hermetic teachings and teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault May you rest knowingthe surrendering you did today—however small, however hidden—was real work.May you trust the exchangethat flowed through you today,between bounded and unbounded,particular and...
A Contemplative Meditation on Jean Gebser’s Map and the Wisdom Territory The Flash I'll cut right to the chase: I had an insight that artificial intelligence may be the announcer of the Integral Structure of Consciousness. May be the enabler of the Integral. This...
"There is something in the heart of Divine purpose that impels it to manifest outwardly, to recognize its own wholeness. All part of the revelation of the divine immense formlessness coming into form." Cynthia Bourgeault The Divine Imperative to Manifest "There is...
Daily Intention from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault May I wake alignedwith the frequencyof the cosmos.Giving is receiving.May I keep my heart clear,my hands open, my eye unencumbered,embedded in abundance.May I bring something in handto the day’s...
“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...
“With the engagement of this property of sympathetic resonance, being able to fully enter the insides of things, and a blind beholding into the naked being of God himself.” Cynthia Bourgeault Meaning as Resonance "Meaning is not explanation. Meaning is resonance."...
“The fruit of your own inner work is non-transferable. You can’t make your eyes radiate kindness by trying to copy it from the outside. The kindness will come as an alchemical product of the way you live your life.” Cynthia Bourgeault [This Impression took a while for...
“A new sense of hope—a hope that's grounded in the faith, hope and love of consciousness." Cynthia Bourgeault Characteristics of Mystical Hope "Mystical Hope has three characteristics. First of all, that it's not tied to outcome. It's not an optimistic feeling based...
A Wisdom poem from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault Benediction: Stand Still in the Light When you find yourself lost,off whatever trailyou were following,stand still in the dark. If the light of conscience comes,and it may,in the quiet hours,be still. Don’t grab,...