Quotes from Cynthia Bourgeault and others on seeing with the heart.

“Vigilance is a collected state, staying within your atmosphere, with attention of the heart.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Holding Our Planet Wisdom School, May 2024 

“Vigilance equals attention of the heart.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Desert Wisdom School, February 2019

“Vigilance is exactly what you encounter when you stay within your atmosphere.  You’re alert, present, unanxious, supremely in your body. Deeply gathered.”  Cynthia Bourgeault, Imaginal Wisdom School, 2020, Wednesday morning 54:30

“Keep within!  The hidden pearl within is your magnetic center, your equanimity, the Wisdom Way that you are cultivating” Cynthia Bourgeault, Centering Prayer retreat, November 2019

“Keep within. And when they say, ‘Look here or look there is Christ, go not forth, for Christ is within you. And those who try to draw your minds away from the teaching inside you, are opposed to Christ. For the measure’s within, and the light of God is within, and the pearl is within, though hidden.” George Fox, Epistle #19 , Works, 1652

“I will remind you that the more negative ‘I’s you have that express themselves openly or privately in your thoughts of other people, the greater danger you are in that those negative ‘I’s you have nourished will turn against yourself. All negative ‘I’s that attack others are in us, and when we try to raise our level through inner work we will have to meet them all one by one, because they will turn on us with the same ferocity that they turn on other people.” Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries, Vol. 2 p651

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Logion 103
Yeshua says…
Blessed are those
who are aware of the approach of thieves,
who know when and where they will enter
even before they appear,
for then they may arise and prepare
by gathering their sovereignty about them,
and binding to themselves
that which was from the beginning.

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See related Impressions for this topic.

Page numbers for Maurice Nicoll refer to Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Eureka Editions:2020) unless stated otherwise. 

All quotations from the Gospel of Thomas are from Lynn C Bauman, Ward J Bauman, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Luminous Gospels (Praxis 2008)

Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.