Lectio Harmonia I offer the term ‘Lectio Harmonia’ to describe a contemplative practice of discovering resonance among Wisdom teachings. In Greek philosophy, Harmonia referred to the underlying order and unity of the cosmos—the patterns that connect apparently...
My personal exploration of Wisdom spirituality. May 2024 There is a sense that life is like a Parable or a Gospel of Thomas Logion or Desert Saying—these ancient forms that were meant to deliver Wisdom through different levels of meaning and truth. There is the lower...
The idea of ground truth inspired by the Benedictine rule of Ora et Labora Orientation There is a doorbetween heart and work.One consent. The garden waits at dawn.You enter. Morning Alignment In the meeting placebetween sinew and soil,the door stays open.You...
Philip thinks in correspondences and images … and he doesn't explain the correspondence. The Gospel of Philip sayings are short poetic statements—mappings of movement at different densities, levels, scales. Read them with a slow attention that lets a correspondence...
“In the Lords Prayer there are innumerable ideas. Each phrase has inner octaves." Maurice Nicoll Sacred Gestures of Exchange “Many people have observed that when you say the Lord’s Prayer you look at how exchange is so much a part of it. This becomes particularly...
“Our experience seems to be governed by the law of linear time and linear causality and so it looks like things come to us from some place that doesn’t exist yet which we call the future.” Cynthia Bourgeault Beyond Linear Time: The Spatial Reality “When you get deeply...
Alignment with Good distilled into morning intentions. A Tree in the Field Today I align with the Good that is present.I stand rooted within it.I allow what is true to radiate. I trust the fruit of this day to arise in its own moment. So be it.—...
“The witnessing selfhood, or Imaginal selfhood, is of a lighter density: contained, non-identified, collected, balanced, and gathered.” Cynthia Bourgeault A Missing Name for Subtle Selfhood “There is a selfhood, just as there is subtle perception, there’s also subtle...
“The ‘gift of tears’ was always considered by the masters of Christian spirituality as a grace from the Holy Spirit.” Meditations on the Tarot The Gift of Tears: Divine Grace Made Manifest “Christian mysticism speaks also of the ‘gift of tears’—as a precious gift of...
“Jacob Boehme says the soul begins in the fire principle and as we are willing to submit to the alchemy of transformation, that's how something emerges.” Cynthia Bourgeault From Friction to Self-Perceptivity "What [Jacob Boehme] is calling anguish, if you took it down...
Nightly blessings from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault May you rest knowing the veil of your finitude is the form through which the infinite learns to touch,without consuming.May the bounded love you offered,pressed tight within the day's limits,have glowed more...
“The vow of poverty is to live as much from the word which comes from the mouth of God as from the bread which enters the mouth of man.” Meditations on the Tarot The Foundation: True Poverty as Receptivity “The vow of poverty is the practice of inner emptiness, which...
“If you say yes, if you show up, be present, you will be cared for and you will receive assistance, and your spiritual journey will unfold.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Fundamental Commitment “If you show up, you have a responsibility to be present. Choose what you show up...