Blessed are poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
“Good is the alchemical property resulting from struggle. It’s the quality of your Being that you offer up.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Encounter with Evil Wisdom School in Valle Crucis
“The deep surrender of self through Kenosis is the access path to abundance, not your will.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Pendle Hill, May 2019
“Kenosis and self-calming are opposite ends of the spectrum.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Centering Prayer retreat, November 2019
“The fruits of the spirit are alchemical byproducts of Conscious Labor and Intentional Suffering.” Cynthia Bourgeault, 01:00:30 Thursday am teaching of the 2020 Imaginal Wisdom School
“The real spiritual alchemy occurs when one allows oneself to fall down and get up again.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Rebuilding Trust WS 3.2 Crucible of Struggle 05:00
“What Jacob Boehme specifically says, is that pain is the ground of motion, and that anguish and the capacity for things to fall apart is also the birth of the self-reflective principle that reaches enlightenment through alchemy, not through elimination of one of the terms.” Cynthia, THE HOLY TRINITY & THE LAW OF THREE, disc 6 track 12.
Everything in life is done without regard to outcome. As Cynthia says, “Welcoming is not the alternative to action. It is the ground of action.”
Logion 58
Yeshua says...
Blessed are the troubled.
They have seized hold of life.
Our Real Work
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
Wendell Berry
The Guest House by Rumi
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness
comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
More Impressions exploring the Beatitudes.
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.
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