Heather Ruce

Today marks the first day of the season of Advent in the Christian tradition and lineage. It is a season of inner preparation, waiting,...

Last week we talked about lingering a little longer in the thin time of the fall Triduum and opening to the possibility of actually...

After being away in the rural mountains of North Carolina this week — with a small group of humans, an amazing amount of large vibrantly...

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...

The wellspring of the precious spiritual raw materials, virtues and fruit [mercy, trust, courage, forgiveness, humility, faith, hope,...

Last week I spoke of our responsibility as students of wisdom and contemplatives to deepen our awareness of the our deepest Center of...

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...

This week in one of the pauses I read from Cynthia Bourgeault's, “Spiritual Practices from the Gurdjieff Work, in which she likens...

We are ordinary contemplatives, mystics and saints. Our ongoing task is to allow our lives to be our monasteries, mountaintops and...

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...

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...

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...

On Friday I shared another reading from Mrs. Staveley, one of Gurdjieff’s students in which she highlights that we have “two myselfs”...

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...

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”...

Our contemplative practices do over time help us to ‘see’ differently. This Eastertide season many of you have joined in an intentional...

I trust you are finding your way with the Eastertide (Ascensiontide) challenge given by Cynthia Bourgeault (you can read it here as well...

Our We have begun the season of Eastertide (Ascensiontide) as it is known in the Christian Tradition. It marks the time after the...

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...

(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...

I am encouraged by all of the caring efforts, good wishes and prayer arising in our world to surround the Ukrainian and Russian people...

Here is an invitation for Lent which comes directly from Cynthia Bourgeault’s teachings this week on Gurdjieff’s notion of working with...

Today is the last Sunday in the season of Epiphany in the Christian tradition before we head into the season of Lent beginning Wednesday....

I have mentioned the past two weeks. . . conscious love is at the root of Jesus’ teaching and choosing to engage relationships...