Heather Ruce

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...

Tomorrow is the feast of Saint Valentine in the Western Christian tradition, a day which commemorates his death, and often focuses on...

Last week I was asked to be on a podcast with a friend and colleague to talk about conscious relationships. Conscious relationships are a...

As we move forward in Epiphanytide, a season of the Christic light revealing and making itself known in our embodied lives, I would like...

The season of Epiphanytide is still amongst us. Within this season also falls Martin Luther King Day. We must never forget that systemic...

I hope that you are enjoying leaning into this season of Epiphanytide and finding ways to connect with what is good, true and beautiful...

As the new year continues to meet us, so does the season called Epiphanytide in the Christian tradition - the days following Epiphany -...

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...

Advent has been a season of waiting and preparing not only for holiday gatherings and celebrations but for the Christ to be born once...

This fourth Sunday of Advent in the sacred darkness brings us closer to the birthing and delivery of the Christic which has been...

Today is the third Sunday of Advent and we continue alongside Mary, waiting and tending in the beautiful sacred darkness as we carry the...

We carry on in winter, today the second Sunday of Advent in the Christian tradition. A season in which we can accompany and be...