Living from Good
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...
“Real Will comes from above, from a higher level. … Real Will means great meaning and great understanding and great flexibility.” Maurice Nicoll A Force That Draws Things Together “Real Will is a force that draws things together into an enlargement of meaning.”...
“Wait in patience until light arises out of darkness and leads thee. And light does arise out of darkness somewhere in the soul.” Cynthia Bourgeault Mother of Will “Gurdjieff said: ‘Patience is the Mother of Will.’ That is, Will, passing through patience as Third...
First, sly and clever, then steady and wise, on the path to spiritual development. The Nature and Definition of Sly Man "There are many different forms of Self-Remembering, and Sly Man was once defined as he who knows how to remember himself in different ways at...
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...
"As we develop these simple physical embodiment practices that allow us to endure within our own skins and within our own atmosphere, we discover that we are met and accompanied." Cynthia Bourgeault The Foundation: Reclaiming the Body's Holiness "Christianity has been...
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...