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Dear contemplative friends, Rumi’s words are a reminder that in 2020 we’ve felt deep wounds in the body of the world. Just like we await the birth of the Christ light in this shadow time of year, the world is aching for healing Light amid its myriad wounds. The Light is manifested as radical hope in each of us and shines as divine love in all our global body. Cynthia Bourgeault reminds us:   “Hope’s home is at the innermost point in us, and in all things. It is a quality of a

Writing just after the November 2020 US election, Cynthia Bourgeault shares this:  “Well, the oasis of grace miraculously opened, and now it’s time to roll up our collective sleeves and get on with the healing work! I know that my own first assignment has something to do with helping to expose— and hopefully defuse— some of the reactivity and sanctimoniousness that boils just below the surface in my immediate peer group, the spiritual liberal intelligentsia.”   What unfolds i

Dear Friends and Members of the The Contemplative Society, Mercy . An old-fashioned word that conjures up so many contrasting images. Mercy is “a bond,” writes Cynthia Bourgeault in Mystical Hope , “an infallible link of love that holds the created and uncreated realms together.”  Far from condescension or political power, the origin of the word mercy points instead to a flow of connectedness, reciprocity, and exchange.       Mercy is the great weaver that binds us together.

Dear Contemplative Friends,   This has been a year of momentous change and uncertainty!   Here at The Contemplative Society, we have been prayerfully discerning our future path through the challenges and opportunities during this tumultuous time.    The Board has made some difficult decisions to reduce administrative costs and bring expenses into alignment with income. We’ve had to change our usual way of operating and are exploring alternative and creative means to support t