A Peaceful Mind and Heart
Meditative Awareness Retreats and Programs
Our essential aim is to encounter the silent awareness that brings us wholeness, compassion and inner peace.
the sacred feminine in a fractured world
Save the date - September 24, 2026
An evening retreat with The Contemplative Society.
The mystery of the Sacred Feminine dwells deep in the hearts of both women and men. She quietly invites us to give birth to the inner transformation that dissolves the illusion of separateness from each other and from nature.
When you are a light to yourself, you are a light to the world.
J. Krishnamurti
Silent Awareness
Reviews of Silent Awareness
"Cynthia Overweg's writing is classic literature, easy to read,
and deeply moving. This is a book I couldn't stop reading because
it took me so deeply inward."
― R.E. MARK LEE, author of World Teacher: The Life and Teaching
of J. Krishnamurti
"Silent Awareness invites us on a quest, to an epiphany not of place
or person, but of a luminous, still, Being."
― GABRIELE UHLEIN, OSF, PhD, author of Meditations with
Hildegard of Bingen
"In this wonderful book, Cynthia Overweg gives simple and practical suggestions which can help a searcher to be embraced by the Mysterious Silence pervading the whole cosmos."
― RAVI RAVINDRA, PhD, author of The Wisdom of
Patañjali's Yoga
"This serene, thoughtful, and meditative book helps calm the mind and open us to the stillness that underlies the world
of substance."
― RICHARD SMOLEY, author of Inner Christianity:
A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition
"This book will change the way you see the world. Cynthia Overweg beautifully captures what it means to know who we are and how our lives are linked with all other lives, from the slightest fluttering of a leaf to the Ground of Being. "
― ROBERT ELLWOOD, PhD, author of Mysticism and Religion