Poetry about wisdom for the peacemaker inside For the Journey: a Consent Cycle ORIENTATIONThree companions for the way: lantern, mantle, staff.Light enough for the next step. Warmth kept close. Ground that can be met.I do not know the distance. I carry what is...
What is Worry? “Every time you say ‘I am so worried,’ you give energy to it. You should not speak your worry.” Maurice Nicoll, Informal Work Talks and Teachings 1940-1950, p132. “QUESTION: What is worry? Does the Work say anything about worrying? How can it be...
WB: This Impression is a very deep, rich, and advanced curation of Cynthia Bourgeault’s synthesis of three massive cosmological systems (Boehme, Gurdjieff, Teilhard) around a single fundamental question in spiritual work: What is the energy of love? A previous...
The Christianity of resurrection and ascension “absolutely demands the ability to move between worlds and to see with the eye of the heart, and to receive ongoing teaching, help, and support from a risen Jesus.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Bold Paradox of Resurrection...
WB: These teachings on what love is are gathered from a single Wisdom School on Conscious Love in 2001. Cynthia grounds these teachings in everyday practice, and they form a counterpart to the more cosmological teachings on the Energy of Love. The Nature of Conscious...
Spiritual awakening: “Heaven is not a place that you die into, but a place that you awaken to, and you awake now, and you awake in the next moment, and the next moment, and the next moment.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Foundation of Spiritual Awakening “The obedient mind...
A good night blessing May your life settle into alignmentwith the Good that is already present. May Good make itself knownas warmth,as steadiness,as belonging. May kindness appearas naturally as lightwhere there is space.May generosity move freely.May forgiveness...
“Feel the impact of your finitude, not as your ego having failed, but just the sense that you are the veil that hides the paradise you seek.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Divine Instrument "This wonderful, wonderful metaphor in number 27 [from Forty Questions of the Soul],...
“This unity of opposites, this reconciling force, is a third thing, a Third Force, connecting both opposites and yet different from either.” Maurice Nicoll The Cross as Unity of Opposites “The Cross is the union of two pairs of opposites, and the practice of the Cross...
A wisdom poem on the origin of evil Keeper of the Shards: a Cycle of Consent OrientationA heart holds what opposes.Without collapse, without erasure.The still point, where friction births manifestation.This is true.Evil loose in the streets.The window shatters on the...
A brief pause from within the field of Good: Self alignment. Orientation Attention rests as allowance, as a form of consent.Nothing is forced open, Nothing shut.Attention simply stays. And staying becomes prayer. Morning AlignmentI offer my...