Heather Ruce

There was no email sent out this week. From the Daily Contemplative Pauses Monday The times are out of joint, much twisted, recognition...

I trust you have been finding your way this summer (or winter) season with its many rhythms, making space to tend to what it is that you...

There was no email sent out this week. From the Daily Contemplative Pauses Thursday with Catherine Mind Wanting More Only a beige slat of...

There was no email sent out this week. From the Daily Contemplative Pauses Tuesday with Tom "Contemplation is a kind of seeing that is...

As mentioned last week, the Wisdom paths across the various spiritual traditions teach that there is more going on spiritually in and...

All of the Wisdom traditions teach in various ways that there is more going on spiritually in and around us than we notice in our...

As you know the Fourth of July was this past week, a day in the United States that represents and celebrates both freedom and...

There was no email sent out this week. From the Daily Contemplative Pauses Monday "In all my years of traveling around the world, one...

There was no email sent out this week. From the Daily Contemplative Pauses Monday, June 19th with Tom “Hence my false self is not...

This Wednesday is the Summer Solstice, the longest day and shortest night in the Northern Hemisphere. This day, and season, has been...

According to the Christian liturgical calendar we are now in what is considered the long green season of Ordinary Time. It is a time to...

There was no email sent out this week. From the Daily Contemplative Pauses Monday with Chris Persistent Visitor of Grace, come as a...

As you have probably heard from many Contemplative, Wisdom, and Mystic Teachers, there exists within us all something of the Divine...

There was no email sent out this week From the Daily Contemplative Pauses Monday with Heather Prayer of those who dwell in a monastery...

Today is a day of honoring and extending gratitude toward mother in so many different ways. Being a mother is not limited to those who...

So far this Eastertide, we have been focusing on four different postures (see below for links) we can learn to inhabit with the help and...

The fourth posture we might continue to work with this Eastertide, continuing to draw on the work of Cynthia Bourgealt, is the posture of...

We are continuing to explore working with the four different postures, drawing on the work of Cynthia Bourgeault, which Jesus and Mary...

Last week I mentioned that during the Holy Week retreats we worked with four different postures which Jesus and Mary Magdalene embodied...

Holy Week is over, Easter has come, and now we are in the subtle season of Eastertide, known in the liturgical tradition as the “great...

This Holy Week has begun and I am heading into the Silence with many of you in different ways as we walk right alongside Jesus and Mary...

We are getting closer to Holy Week, in which we are invited to step inside of the events that transpired right alongside Jesus and Mary...

Last week we spoke of the practice of self-examination inherent in this Lenten season. This is a very subtle practice really. It is easy...

At the start of this Lenten Season we focused on how the practices of fasting, praying, and giving are truly in service of...