Heather Ruce

Today, and hopefully every day, we honor our fathers. Like Mother's Day I know that Father’s Day can bring with it a slew of complicated...

Into the larger mind. . . This is not about thinking differently but about moving beyond the mind. Jesus is showing us how to do this in...

Our contemplative practice is all about moving beyond our usual limited field of perceptivity based solely in the small egoic structure...

No matter what spiritual path you are on, the non-dual teachings of Yeshua (Jesus in Aramaic) in the Beatitudes open those who have...

This Paschal Season and our Vigil in this form comes to an end today on Pentecost Sunday. For those of you who have joined me...

As you know, according to the liturgical year in the Christian tradition, we are still in the fifty days of Eastertide, holding vigil,...

Today, and hopefully every day, we honor our mothers. Having walked alongside others for many years I know firsthand that Mother’s Day...

We carry on holding vigil in Eastertide. Last week we returned to Gurdjieff’s teaching that each one of us has an atmosphere, like the...

As we continue on in this Paschal Season, many of you holding vigil with me, I hope you are finding ways to ‘keep within’. . . to stay...

Springtime and Eastertide are upon us as the world continues to open up from 'stay at home' dictates in fits and starts. Wisdom is here...

In this Paschal Season, the world is opening up and in need of wisdom to chart the territory of loving presence and action toward all...

It is Easter Sunday, the start of the great fifty days of Eastertide (or Paschal Time) which runs up to Pentecost Sunday. In the...

It is Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday, the first day of Holy Week, in the Christian tradition. I know that everyone has their own kind of...

I am often despaired by the ongoing hate and violence that exists in humans. The murders of the Asian American women this week was heart...

As you well know it has been a year of the pandemic and of cocooning in the darkness of the womb. Are we ready to emerge? To be birthed?...

Although the pandemic was rolling in already, I remember Friday, March 13th, 2020 as the day it really set in that we were entering into...

We continue on in this Lenten season. Whether you gave up something or took something on for these 40 days, I hope that you were able to...

Our Lenten journey continues. This time of self-examination, fasting or letting go of something, and prayer/meditation. All in service of...

This has been another tumultuous week in America with all that is going on in D.C. and around the world. All hearts and hands are needed...

You may have noticed the blessing at the end of the weekly emails as of late. Many of you now know that it goes with a body prayer of...

Wisdom and Systemic Racism by Heather Ruce As we continue on in the season of Epiphany, the veil still thin, we are invited to bring the...

There is a lot of healing ahead of us and yet we are not through the traumas. Trauma is really about things happening that are too much,...

What a historical week here in the United States. There is so much to celebrate and I think everyone agrees that there is a lot of...

This is another big week. Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Wednesday is Inauguration Day. There is such a strong need to stay...