Heather Ruce

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found  here *   Monday, November 17th  Reading: " Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! Place your heart in the figure of the divine substance, and through Contemplation, allow your entire being to be transformed into the image of the Godhead itself, so that you may taste the hidden sweetness that God has reserved for his lover

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found  here *   Monday, November 10th  Chants:   Sink into the taproot of your heart   –  Heather Ruce Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, deep within and all around   –  Henry Schoenfield Tuesday, November 11th Chant: Come be with me, all you who carry heavy burdens, I will give you rest, I will give you rest   –  chanted by Colleen Thomas Wednesday, November 12th Reading: " We succeeded in ta

Dear Ones,   In these times of great unraveling , when so much of what we have known is shifting beneath our feet, many of us sense a call to something deeper—not to escape the world’s pain, but to remain rooted, awake, and responsive within it. There is an call to hold our post with steadiness and love, to remember who we are beneath our small sense of self and all the noise, and to let that remembrance guide how we move, serve, and rest.   Our post—as we have been exploring

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found  here *   Monday, October 27th with LeMel Reading:  'Kindness' by Naoimi Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you

Dear Ones,    How are we to move beyond simply managing crises to co-creating a new pattern of being that is adequate to the complexity and sacredness of the world? How do we stand rooted and firm—clear in mind, emotion, and body—as death/birth doulas, midwives, and shepherds able to see and act skillfully rather than be swept up in polarization or despair?  We know that when basic human needs are threatened, the main survival strategies physiologically wired in us are fighti

Dear Ones,   In the last email, we looked at the living map of the Ray of Creation  and how it can be helpful to find ourselves within it, so as to inform the way we live. It is one way of framing the task that we are being invited to take up, the post we are to hold as participants in the divine exchange. We might consider this a map that describes and orients us more toward the vertical dimension of reality. Now, we will turn our attention more fully to the horizontal dimen

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found  here *   Tuesday, October 7th with LeMel Readings: "Somehow we must keep hope alive - a hope that we can find a way to educate all, alleviate poverty, assuage anger, and live in harmony with the environment, with animals and with each other."   – Dr. Jane Goodall "In the practice of conscious love you begin to discover...a hope that is related not to outcome but to a wells

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found  here *   Monday, September 29th...

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found  here *   Monday, September 22nd -...

Dear Ones, As we explored at the beginning of the month, Gurdjieff's Ray of Creation is his re-imagining of the ancient Great Chain of...

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found  here *   Monday, September 8th...

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found  here *   Monday, September 1st...

One of the maps that can be quite helpful in navigating the troubled waters of our current circumstances is called the Ray of Creation ....

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found  here *   Monday, August 18th...

In a world full of demands and noise of all kinds, practicing silence may be considered counter-cultural even though every spiritual...

Dear Ones,   In a world full of demands and noise of all kinds, practicing silence may be considered counter-cultural even though every...

Any practice that fosters the remembrance and ongoing awareness of the Great I AM, God, the Ultimate Mystery, dwelling within the depths...

One of the most important things we can do in life is to remember that God, the Great I AM, the Ultimate Mystery, dwells within the...

Dear Ones,   A ternary understanding becomes especially crucial as we face the complex challenges of our time. Consider how the Law of...

Dear Ones, Let us continue to consider how this metaphysical principle and pattern, the Law of Three embedded in the Trinity, appears in...

Dear Ones,   A few weeks ago we looked at the reality of the trinitarian pattern woven into the very structure of existence. This...

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses *All previous readings & reflections can be found  here *   Monday, June 23rd with...

The invitation of Trinity Sunday, now two weeks behind us, extends far beyond a single day of celebration. It calls us to recognize the...

Dear ones,   Two days ago, we marked Trinity Sunday—a celebration in the Christian tradition of the mystery of the Three-in-One: the...