Being a benevolent ancestor.
Last week we talked about lingering a little longer in the thin time of the fall Triduum and opening to the possibility of actually...
Reflections
- Oct 15
- 3 min
We are not separate from nature.
After being away in the rural mountains of North Carolina this week — with a small group of humans, an amazing amount of large vibrantly...
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- Oct 8
- 5 min
On the lookout.
Just a quick note this week. . . Although we can never fully know the impact our work as contemplatives on the wisdom path has in our...
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- Oct 1
- 5 min
Our human task.
The wellspring of the precious spiritual raw materials, virtues and fruit [mercy, trust, courage, forgiveness, humility, faith, hope,...
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- Sep 25
- 3 min
Deeper into the wellspring.
Last week I spoke of our responsibility as students of wisdom and contemplatives to deepen our awareness of the our deepest Center of...
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- Sep 17
- 4 min
Our deepest center of Being.
Whether you consider yourself to be a student of wisdom and a contemplative or not, you are or you would not find yourself reading these...
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- Sep 10
- 4 min
Self-remembering.
This week in one of the pauses I read from Cynthia Bourgeault's, “Spiritual Practices from the Gurdjieff Work, in which she likens...
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- Sep 3
- 3 min
Ordinary contemplatives, mystics and saints.
We are ordinary contemplatives, mystics and saints. Our ongoing task is to allow our lives to be our monasteries, mountaintops and...
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- Aug 27
- 4 min
Practice what is taught.
I am going to share another theme that I read in the Friday pause. Some of you may have already seen it but I thought it was worth...
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- Aug 20
- 4 min
We are alive.
We are alive, here, now, living in this world as it is—as well as spiritual world’s beyond—although we are only sometimes aware, so...
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- Aug 13
- 5 min
Moments.
I trust you had moments this week of feeling connected to your own aliveness as well as the aliveness all around you. I trust that you...
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- Aug 6
- 5 min
Two myselfs.
On Friday I shared another reading from Mrs. Staveley, one of Gurdjieff’s students in which she highlights that we have “two myselfs”...
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- Jul 30
- 5 min
Conscience.
It is helpful for me to remember that human’s have a conscience, a conscience that is rooted in what Jean Gebser calls ‘the ever-present...
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- Jul 24
- 6 min
Manna.
In Friday’s pause I read a rather long excerpt (see below) from Mrs. Staveley, one of Gurdjieff’s students, from her book “Themes I”...
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- May 15
- 5 min
Tolerate the Discomfort.
Our contemplative practices do over time help us to ‘see’ differently. This Eastertide season many of you have joined in an intentional...
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- Apr 30
- 4 min
Ascensiontide Challenge.
I trust you are finding your way with the Eastertide (Ascensiontide) challenge given by Cynthia Bourgeault (you can read it here as well...
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- Apr 23
- 8 min
Season of Ascensiontide.
Our We have begun the season of Eastertide (Ascensiontide) as it is known in the Christian Tradition. It marks the time after the...
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- Mar 27
- 2 min
Abundance.
During lent, let us remember that Jesus was, and still is, a wisdom teacher and he taught a path to those who were open. As Cynthia...
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- Mar 19
- 7 min
Gospodi Pomiliuj, Lord Mercy Us.
(icon of our Lady of Kyiv, 1132) This week's reflection is a bit longer than usual. It is a reflection I wrote for Wisdom Waypoints. I do...
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- Mar 13
- 3 min
Gospodi Pomiliuj.
I am encouraged by all of the caring efforts, good wishes and prayer arising in our world to surround the Ukrainian and Russian people...
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- Mar 6
- 4 min
Creating Sun, Creating Moon.
Here is an invitation for Lent which comes directly from Cynthia Bourgeault’s teachings this week on Gurdjieff’s notion of working with...
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- Feb 27
- 3 min
Amongst the Saguaro.
Today is the last Sunday in the season of Epiphany in the Christian tradition before we head into the season of Lent beginning Wednesday....
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- Feb 20
- 5 min
Black History Month.
I have mentioned the past two weeks. . . conscious love is at the root of Jesus’ teaching and choosing to engage relationships...
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- Feb 13
- 5 min
Feast of Saint Valentine.
Tomorrow is the feast of Saint Valentine in the Western Christian tradition, a day which commemorates his death, and often focuses on...
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