Drinking from our own well: How a Salt Spring Island experiment recovered Christian contemplation Published February 23, 2026 by By Nicholas Fournie in the Anglican Journal When the parish of All Saints by the Sea consecrated its new church in 1994, it did something unusual: it placed meditatio…

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The capacity to do this is what I mean by Wisdom."

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#CYNTHIABOURGEAULT ON THE EFFECT OF THE #GURDJIEFF WORK

"Without a different quality of conscious #attention grounded in our body, we revert back to an 'either/or' kind of mental tunnel vision

Wisdom’s Hour: A Reflection following the Election Click here for James Finley and Richard Rohr’s post-election messages. Watch Cynthia Bourgeault’s response to the United States’ presidential election and

Let us go forward. There is work to be done; prayer, joy, courage, and strength are deeply needed. And we do know the way there. This is Wisdom’s hour. #CynthiaBourgeault cac.org/daily-medita...

Real Wisdom can be given and received only in a state of presence. Presence is the straight and narrow gate through which one passes to Wisdom.

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New Spirituality for Chaotic Times Blog- Hope. See link in bio.
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Stop Trying to Be Your True Self. Start Smelling It Instead. Our culture keeps chasing “the true self.” Maybe it’s time to stop defining it and start smelling it. Presence, not identity, is the real fragrance.

Stop trying to “find” yourself. Start smelling yourself instead.
Presence isn’t something you achieve, it’s what’s left when you stop pretending.

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Why You’re Not Supposed to Be Happy: You’re Supposed to Be Whole When happiness fades, what’s left isn’t failure—it’s formation; real freedom begins when you stop chasing good feelings and start saying yes to your unfolding.

Happiness fades. Wholeness holds.

New scroll: Why You’re Not Supposed to Be Happy: You’re Supposed to Be Whole
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The Soul Is Not a Dropbox Folder Modern spirituality loves to treat the soul like a Dropbox folder—preloaded, waiting in the cloud. But the wisdom traditions say otherwise: you don’t start with a soul, you make one. This essay explor...

The soul isn’t cloud storage.
It’s not your “authentic self” on standby in the sky.
It’s the residue of a life forged in fire, distilled by presence & surrender.

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Your #existential PSA of the day, courtesy of #CynthiaBourgeault:

But what is missed here—and it is of crucial importance—is that the moving center also carries unique perceptive gifts, the most important of which is the capacity to understand the language of faith encoded in sacred gesture."

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"In many spiritual traditions of the world, the body is viewed with fear and suspicion, considered to be the seat of desire and at best a dumb beast that must be trained and brought into submission to the personal will.

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