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Reflections

Monthly reflections gifted by  Wisdom teachers and community voices who share insights, stories, and contemplative guidance. Here you’ll find articles to inspire your practice and support your journey on the Wisdom path.

2014 AGM Letters from TCS President and Cynthia Bourgeault

By
The Contemplative Society

February 27, 2014

When I was thinking about presenting the President’s Report to this year’s AGM the theme that kept coming to me was gratitude. There is so much that I am grateful for and thought beneficial to share.

Red Hat’s in Town

By
Faye Cox

February 4, 2014

We would like to share with you a this wonderfully descriptive poem by recent Wisdom School participant Faye Cox, that so creatively captures our Teacher, Cynthia Bourgeault. Red Hat’s in Town Careful, you might miss her in a crowd neither tall nor fashionable obvious, imposing – in no way whatsoever. A small force, a trim tab with the impact of a mighty wind stirred by a butterfly wing. Shifting the foundations of empire is not an easy job – given, not taken, received with equal...

Advent message from TCS

By
The Contemplative Society

December 20, 2013

This is the season of holy waiting as we prepare to celebrate the coming of the Christ Light – the season of mystery as the infinite touches the finite.



I am writing this from a little waterfront cabin not far from Sooke. Tomorrow I will be joined by 11 others for a TCS sponsored 5-day Meditation Intensive.

The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Discovering the Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity

By
The Contemplative Society

May 22, 2013

Excerpt: The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Discovering the Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity – By Cynthia Bourgeault Published by Shambhala Publications , July 9 2013. Introduction: My first challenge in writing this book will be to persuade you that there is anything here worth considering at all. With so many urgent practical issues facing spiritual humanity, why waste time with the Trinity, a doctrine that most of the world (and even much of Christianity) regards as...

Beyond No Hope

By
Christopher Page

April 4, 2013

When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away.

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