Key teachings from this modern mystic on contemplative practice, the Wisdom tradition, and non-dual awareness.
“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...
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...
"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 Intentions 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...