“When the mind comes into the heart, the new operating system of nonduality kicks in.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Multiplicity of Ordinary Being "Not one of you here has a real permanent, unchanging 'I'. Not one of you here has real unity of being. All of you are nothing...
A daily intention from the Wisdom teachings: May you walk into this morning,treating every interruptionas unlikely ground,where presence might take root.Go gently. Logion 113His students asked him,"On what day will the kingdom arrive? ""Its coming cannot be perceived...
Wise poetry from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault CONSENTI.Unbearable stillness of unredeemed love. Waiting, before consent. Great wealth aching toward poverty.Love with no vessel. Fullness without form. Stuck in dull, dead latency.II.The wilderness. Seven...
"The higher creates the lower on every successive level in the Great Chain of Being.” Maurice Nicoll Recognition of Higher and Lower "All esotericism begins with the idea that there is something higher. Exoteric systems, such as religions, say that this something...
A portrait of Yeshua from his own words It is Yeshua, the Anointed One, who has seduced and beguiled us all, and yet he has never coerced or oppressed anyone, and because of this the Blessed Ones become fully realized human beings… he gives rest to those who...
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...