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”...
Reflections
- 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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- May 1
- 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 20
- 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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- Feb 6
- 6 min
Conscious Relationships.
Last week I was asked to be on a podcast with a friend and colleague to talk about conscious relationships. Conscious relationships are a...
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- Jan 30
- 6 min
There is light and we have help.
As we move forward in Epiphanytide, a season of the Christic light revealing and making itself known in our embodied lives, I would like...
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- Jan 23
- 3 min
The way of a warrior-sage.
The season of Epiphanytide is still amongst us. Within this season also falls Martin Luther King Day. We must never forget that systemic...
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- Jan 16
- 3 min
Goodness, truth, and beauty.
I hope that you are enjoying leaning into this season of Epiphanytide and finding ways to connect with what is good, true and beautiful...
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- Jan 9
- 6 min
Epiphanytide.
As the new year continues to meet us, so does the season called Epiphanytide in the Christian tradition - the days following Epiphany -...
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- Jan 2
- 6 min
The earth has made her orbit.
The earth has made her full orbit around the sun. Thus we find ourselves at the beginning of a new year. It is a wonderful and...
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- Dec 26, 2021
- 3 min
Christmas has come and the waiting is over.
Advent has been a season of waiting and preparing not only for holiday gatherings and celebrations but for the Christ to be born once...
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- Dec 19, 2021
- 5 min
Love.
This fourth Sunday of Advent in the sacred darkness brings us closer to the birthing and delivery of the Christic which has been...
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- Dec 12, 2021
- 5 min
Joy.
Today is the third Sunday of Advent and we continue alongside Mary, waiting and tending in the beautiful sacred darkness as we carry the...
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- Dec 5, 2021
- 3 min
Peace.
We carry on in winter, today the second Sunday of Advent in the Christian tradition. A season in which we can accompany and be...
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- Nov 28, 2021
- 5 min
Hope.
It is winter time here and in many parts of the world. The barren trees, brown patches on the ground, animals hibernating, plants lying...
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- Nov 21, 2021
- 5 min
Litany of gratitude and compassion.
We are entering thanksgiving week here in the United States. With the complicated history in mind, wounds still fresh in the land and in...
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- Nov 14, 2021
- 5 min
Making room in my heart for compassion.
We have been focusing on the essence of ourselves that is unable to be destroyed. The golden kernel, the invincible heart, the center...
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