What is your Source-Book?
Updated: Jun 28
What are you currently integrating?
A source book is a book that you are actively reading or revisiting. It is something you are learning and taking inspiration from; a book that you'd share with your friends.
Keeping a sourcebook helps us flip back and forth from an active thinking state to a passive one so that we are able to exercise both our outer creative and inner organizational mind.
By carrying at least a journal and a book, we make it easier for us to write and/or read, and in turn to think and integrate what we're currently processing.
The combination of reading and writing creates a feedback loop that accelerates learning. We begin to notice patterns. We ask better questions. We develop our own understanding rather than borrowing someone else's conclusions. Sharing Inspiration
Throughout history, students, philosophers, artists, and leaders have kept notebooks alongside their studies. They understood that knowledge is transformed through reflection.
A source-book becomes a companion on that journey.
There is tremendous value in choosing one book and studying it so that we learn to improve our ability to discern. What we learn and give attention to shapes us over time.
Writing, reading, and taking action nurtures our attention. Exploring what resonates with us, summarizing ideas in our own words, and connecting them to our experiences, and what we give attention to becomes ingrained in us.
When we meet with friends, colleagues, mentors, or family members, our source-book gives us something meaningful to share.
One highlighted passage can lead to an hour of thoughtful discussion.
One idea can change the direction of a week.
One conversation can stay with us for years.
We speak about the importance of developing our thoughts, words, and actions with intention. Our journal and source-book support all three. They helps us think more clearly, communicate more effectively, and better discern information for ourselves.
The story continues through what we choose to focus on.
What wisdom are you taking notes on today?
And who might benefit from hearing it?
Personal Favorites
We (Bryan & Marcelo) share with you our personal favorite source-books:
Anything by Rumi; his wisdom through poetry is prayer and soul fury.
The Book of Awakening - Mark Nepo; daily entries on spiritual awakening.
Animal Speak - Ted Andrews; on bird and animal symbology.
We hope these tools aid in inspiring your writing practice.
Intuition is constant realignment
There is no finish line to the process of learning through listening, taking notes, and noticing the little things. Our life in turn becomes filled with abundance.
This practice giving language to how we really feel.
We created the Journal to better identify and work towards our core values and aspirations through daily writing and self reflection:
Questions we asked ourselves were:
What do I value the most right now?
What do I wish to share with loved ones and why?
What am I giving my energy and attention to?
We bring back into focus how valuable it is to lead a life in alignment with our values in mind. & encourage you to grab a book you love and share it. : )
☉ 🌔 ♋️ | June 28, 2026 (Morning Session w/ Billy)
JUNE 28 – The Book of Awakening
All That We Are Not
Discernment is a process of letting go of what we are not.
—FATHER THOMAS KEATING
I can easily over-identify with my emotions and roles, becoming what I feel: I am angry... I am divorced... I am depressed... I am a failure... I am nothing but my confusion and my sadness... No matter how we feel in any one moment, we are not just our feelings, our roles, our traumas, our prescription of values, or our obligations or ambitions. It is so easy to define ourselves by the moment of struggle we are wrestling with. It is a very human way, to be consumed by what moves through us.
In contrast, I often think of how Michelangelo sculpted, how he saw the sculpture waiting, already complete, in the uncut stone. He would often say that his job was to carve away the excess, freeing the thing of beauty just waiting to be released. It helps me to think of spiritual discernment in this way.
Facing ourselves, uncovering the meaning in our hard experiences, the entire work of consciousness speaks to a process by which we sculpt away the excess, all that we are not; finding and releasing the gesture of soul that is already waiting complete, within us.
Self-actualization is this process applied to our life on Earth. The many ways we suffer, both inwardly and outwardly, are the chisels of God freeing the thing of beauty that we have carried within since birth.
• Sit quietly, and as you breathe, feel all that troubles you rise through your body.
• As you breathe, allow these troubles to move away from you.
• Breathe deeply and accept the stillness that comes. It is the skin of your soul, waiting in its completeness for you to carve away the excess of your very human moods.
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