Key teachings from this modern mystic on contemplative practice, the Wisdom tradition, and non-dual awareness.
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...
“Spiritual humility is the capacity for the exchange with your environment. … it’s the capacity for creative exchange with the now.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Heart’s Humility “Organic humility … is not found in the head, but rather in the heart. Because it is...
"In the philosophy of Georges Gurdjieff, the Five Obligonian Strivings are a list of particular things that a human being that is worthily on the path of becoming a true human being will take on." Cynthia Bourgeault “Believe it or not, the quality of your transformed...
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,...
“It's the chance to play beyond your death in the Communion of Saints and still be a conscious participant. The demand for compassion remains unbroken throughout the realms.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Sainthood "Saints live the light, warmth and life of heaven....
A Morning Intention from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault In this hour between darkness and dawn, when the shell fractures and new life pushes into light, grant me eyes to see the breaking-through as well as the breaking.Let trust recognize the birth...
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...