“God made you to be a precious cog in the wheel of enormous dynamism of compassion and mercy. You receive, you give.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Essential Nature of Compassion “The demand for compassion remains unbroken throughout the realms. But if your heart has no...
A good evening blessing as the day settles into its source. ✨Evening Benediction: Movement in Stillness ✨ May the hush of this hour gather all that stirs in you.May your willingness prepare the wayfor what longs to live through you.May you feel the day settling into...
"If you're yearning for God ... just pause right in the middle of that ache and feel it and understand it as the innate language of the divine love for you." Cynthia Bourgeault Yearning as Divine Reciprocity "As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable...
“Blissfulness is the state of the human being where spirit, soul and body are united in a comprehensive rhythm.” "What is joy? What is it in its deeper sense? "Seen in the light of the Arcanum 'The World'—the Arcanum of rhythmic movement or dance—joy is the harmony of...
Benediction and Blessing for those who walk the ancient road. 🌿 Benediction for the Way May you find yourself gatheredinto the hidden chamber of silence,where thought falls awayand the eye of the heart opens.May the Light be born in you anew,so that you walk as a...
“Stand firm, do not bend, is exactly what the tradition is talking about when they say surrender.” Cynthia Bourgeault God’s Protection and Timing “You know, you’ll be undone by a revelation, but your Heavenly Father knows you’re inside and knows at this point that you...
Benediction drawing from the ancient understanding of mercy as sacred commerce between the finite and the infinite. The Great Exchange May you rest knowing each breath tonightis gift flowing toward you,each exhale your offering backto the source of all being. May you...
Exploring one of Plato’s four cardinal virtues: Wisdom, Courage, Temperance (sobriety or hygiene), and Justice. [The image: The higher vessel exchanging with the lower, or perhaps the reverse—an unbroken circuit of transformation. Gurdjieff might call it a depiction...
The Law of Three: from the primordial ground of arising to accepting the tensions of daily life. “Third force has its genesis in bearing the tension of emergence.” Cynthia Bourgeault Origins of Manifestation "Tensioning both for Teilhard de Chardin and for Boehme is...
🕯 Evening Blessing and Benediction: The Cloak and the Flame May you come to see the cloak you wear —not with shame, but with the clarity of love.May the weight that once named yoube revealed as the garment of forgetting,and may your soul no longer mistake its voice...
“It's very, very good to be a hanged man vis-a-vis a spiritual discernment, because the head is going to be the last to catch on.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Spiritual Discernment "An exploration of Plato's Four Cardinal Virtues: wisdom (prudence, discernment),...