Self-remembering.
This week in one of the pauses I read from Cynthia Bourgeault's, “Spiritual Practices from the Gurdjieff Work, in which she likens...
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Reflections
Sep 3, 20223 min read
Ordinary contemplatives, mystics and saints.
We are ordinary contemplatives, mystics and saints. Our ongoing task is to allow our lives to be our monasteries, mountaintops and...
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Aug 27, 20224 min read
Practice what is taught.
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...
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Aug 20, 20224 min read
We are alive.
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...
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Aug 13, 20225 min read
Moments.
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...
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Aug 6, 20225 min read
Two myselfs.
On Friday I shared another reading from Mrs. Staveley, one of Gurdjieff’s students in which she highlights that we have “two myselfs”...
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Jul 30, 20225 min read
Conscience.
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...
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Jul 24, 20226 min read
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”...
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May 15, 20225 min read
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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Apr 30, 20224 min read
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, 20228 min read
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, 20222 min read
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 19, 20227 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20226 min read
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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