December 5, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Your #existential PSA of the day, courtesy of #CynthiaBourgeault:
May 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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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April 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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."
- #CynthiaBourgeault
- #CynthiaBourgeault
"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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- #CynthiaBourgeault
April 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"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.
- #CynthiaBourgeault
- #CynthiaBourgeault
The start of something very special, and enduring take-note.ca/2026/03/01/d... #contemplative #prayer #contemplativesociety #saltspringisland #cynthiabourgeault
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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March 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
The start of something very special, and enduring take-note.ca/2026/03/01/d... #contemplative #prayer #contemplativesociety #saltspringisland #cynthiabourgeault
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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#Mysticism #SoulMaking #ContemplativeChristianity #Sufism #CynthiaBourgeault #VirginMonkBoy
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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#Mysticism #SoulMaking #ContemplativeChristianity #Sufism #CynthiaBourgeault #VirginMonkBoy
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...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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.
👉 www.virginmonkboy.com/p/the-soul-i...
#Mysticism #SoulMaking #ContemplativeChristianity #Sufism #CynthiaBourgeault #VirginMonkBoy
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.
👉 www.virginmonkboy.com/p/the-soul-i...
#Mysticism #SoulMaking #ContemplativeChristianity #Sufism #CynthiaBourgeault #VirginMonkBoy
New Spirituality for Chaotic Times Blog- Hope. See link in bio.
#onbeing #kristatippett #brianmclaren #lifeafterdoom #joannamacy #chrisjohnstone #cynthiabourgeault #janegoodall #douglasabrams #hope #janrichardson #hopeagainsthope #mauricenutt #zadar #zadarcroatia #zadarcroatia❤️
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November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New Spirituality for Chaotic Times Blog- Hope. See link in bio.
#onbeing #kristatippett #brianmclaren #lifeafterdoom #joannamacy #chrisjohnstone #cynthiabourgeault #janegoodall #douglasabrams #hope #janrichardson #hopeagainsthope #mauricenutt #zadar #zadarcroatia #zadarcroatia❤️
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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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Presence isn’t something you achieve, it’s what’s left when you stop pretending.
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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.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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#VirginMonkBoy #CynthiaBourgeault #KabirHelminski #LivingPresence #SpiritualHumor #Mindfulness #Presence
Presence isn’t something you achieve, it’s what’s left when you stop pretending.
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#VirginMonkBoy #CynthiaBourgeault #KabirHelminski #LivingPresence #SpiritualHumor #Mindfulness #Presence
Happiness fades. Wholeness holds.
New scroll: Why You’re Not Supposed to Be Happy: You’re Supposed to Be Whole
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New scroll: Why You’re Not Supposed to Be Happy: You’re Supposed to Be Whole
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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.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Happiness fades. Wholeness holds.
New scroll: Why You’re Not Supposed to Be Happy: You’re Supposed to Be Whole
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#VirginMonkBoy #CynthiaBourgeault #Presence #MindOfChrist
New scroll: Why You’re Not Supposed to Be Happy: You’re Supposed to Be Whole
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February 19, 2026 at 2:23 AM
#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
"Without a different quality of conscious #attention grounded in our body, we revert back to an 'either/or' kind of mental tunnel vision
February 19, 2026 at 2:23 AM
#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
"Without a different quality of conscious #attention grounded in our body, we revert back to an 'either/or' kind of mental tunnel vision
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.
- #CynthiaBourgeault
- #CynthiaBourgeault
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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.
- #CynthiaBourgeault
- #CynthiaBourgeault
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...
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
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December 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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...