Living from Good
"When the heart is aligned with its eternal image, abundance cascades forth from that place of origin.” Cynthia Bourgeault Guardian AngelineLuminous cloud of maternal love, breath of ascent and descent, faithful ally of the Origin. Every soul has one. Let our...
Our heart is really the spiritual vessel in us that mediates between our finite being and the infinite that loves us. Cynthia Bourgeault The Call to Inner Selection "You have not begun to select—to separate—to throw away the bad and put the good into vessels. If you...
The Gospel of Philip carries a teaching so old: that death entered the world through separation, and that the wound at the origin of things heals only through union. Philip calls it the bridal chamber. Voices circling from different centuries, different forms,...
A daily poem from the Wisdom teachings of Valentin Tomberg Effort and Grace: a Consent CycleOrientation Grace falls like rain on open ground.Effort is the sash lifted,the curtain billowing. Two currents meet—one rising from below, one descending from above.Wings...
“It is said: ’Forgive us of our debts as we forgive our debtors.’ Feeling you are owed, feeling debts, stops everything. You hold back yourself and you hold back the other person.” Maurice Nicoll The Spiritual Balance of Forgiveness "It is the balance whose one scale...
A harmonic Impression on spiritual surrender to Divine permeation. The DyerThere is a dyerwhose Good dyes permeate.The color and the clothbecome one thing.I lower what I carryinto the only vat there is.Let the dye be genuine.Let it go all the way through.Whatever this...
“The practice of Tonglen, a healing practice that puts your heart where your mind is. Breathe in the pain … Breathe out blessing.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Given Gift “Air is necessary in order to breathe and to live. Is not the air which surrounds us a perfect...
From the sayings of Thomas: Humanity started poorly, on the path of division. But the path to unity is still open. There are five evergreen trees waiting in paradise. Wisdom for the WoundPrepare all things,energies that obeythe quiet truthof inner condition.Beneath...
“A relational field occurs when there is an exchange of information or spiritual energy between two points … any kind of finite unit in which information is being exchanged across structural levels creates a relational field.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Source of Selfhood...
A contemplative meditation on alignment with Good. Good Speaks Like Silence May you hearwhat does not raise its voice. May the Good meet youthe way light meets an open hand—without insistence,without demand. May its warmth gather in youbefore you name it,before...
“You are the veil that hides the paradise you seek” The spiritual veil is our tendency to make everything external or transactional. The Veil May you rest knowingyou are the veilthat hides the paradise you seek—the simple weightof finite being itself.May you...