Living from Good
Wisdom teachings in audio format. Primarily poetry in the form of benedictions, morning intentions, or consent cycles.
Short life poems based on Cynthia Bourgeault's teachings. The first is grounded in the everyday practice of love. The second is based on the cosmological teachings of Boehme, Teilhard, and Gurdjieff. Love’s Yielding Gesture This motion lives in my first breath:Love...
From the book of Philip: None can see themselves in water or in a mirror unless there is light. Water alone shows nothing. What is needed is a second immersion. See Yourself See the heavens and earth, without becoming them. See the everlasting reality, and become like...
Sayings of the Gospel of Philip, accumulating as poetry with song. LOVE POSSESSES NOTHING Love possesses nothing, and holds everything.Faith receives, and love gives. We are conceived through a kiss of pure spiritual embrace — we kiss each other, giving birth to...
Prayer of the heart as consent. One Bell Rings AnotherThe heart knows by resonance. One bell rings another.My heart, Divine heart.I enter the field between.What belongs, answers. This morning,I let my heart remain attuned. I see from the inside out.I wait for what...
Prayers of the heart as consent OrientationThere is an eye within the heart.When attention settles and remains,this eye clears.This eye knows by intimacy.It recognizes lightfrom within the light.Morning AlignmentToday,I let attention rest in the heart.I allow the...
“Yeshua uprooted fear, which is the root of evil, the poisoner of our lives.” Gospel of Philip Good Does Not FightIgnorance grounded in confusionis the mother of evil.Hidden and unconsciousit coerces us.We do what we would not do.We cannot do what we would.Unable to...
Heart prayers as consent Attention in the HeartThe mind buzzes. The heart holds steady.I drop my attention.Into stillness, into root.From here, seeing deepens.Morning AlignmentI drop my attention lower. I settle into the heart.I invite the mind into poverty.I stay...
From our collection of Wisdom Teachings and poems in song, from the Gospel of Philip. Become All ThingsWe have come from light at its source,children of the living fire,called forth from the deep of desire.Become all things,and never cease to be yourself.All who look...
Crafting poems as songs. From whatever words and phrases arrive during Lectio Divina. Tintern Abbey was founded in 1131, and inhabited by the Cistercian monks for 400 years until Henry VIII decided he didn’t like the monks and signed the Dissolution of Monasteries act...
consent cycles: inhabitable poems of wisdom OrientationI see through the world. What I see clearly, I belong to. Seeing begets seeing.Everything else follows.Morning AlignmentThis morning I consent to see,as I stand in the Good.I gather my attention.I see from...
Consent cycle poetry on the relationship of goodness truth and beauty OrientationTruth, beauty, goodness— three faces, inseparable.When I hunger for them, the day opens.When I reach for advantage, they vanish like mist.Morning AlignmentI stand where Truth is...
A consent cycle on alignment with truth and grace OrientationGrace is already here. Freely given.Truth comes after, and something steadies.Life can be met as it is.I can see clearly.Morning AlignmentThis morning I receive before I strive. I let grace come first.I stop...