When we look on the universe with gratitude, a situation will shift in the direction of largeness and spaciousness.
“Gratitude is one of the most powerful healing and transforming forces at our disposal. All you have to do to make a situation change is to flip the picture so that you can authentically access gratitude. And all of a sudden, a whole different energy flows through it. But the trick of this is that it’s a real… You need to have a genuine reframing. You can’t fake it any more than you can fake forgiveness.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont 2016 Three-Centered Knowing, 36:50 12-Wednesday Evening Reflection.
“As you begin seeing how to genuinely practice gratitude, once you get it, my God, the whole picture changes. Respect enters, spaciousness enters, this healing force beyond anything. And if you can find, even in a coercive and oppressive situation, one little thing that you can take with gratitude, you can flip the picture.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont 2016 Three-Centered Knowing, 38:28 12-Wednesday Evening Reflection.
“Remember what the only correct response to any piece of seeing is? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Engrave that in you as a litany. The right response to any piece of seeing, even if it’s completely psychologically devastating to you, is thank you. Because something has trusted you enough and loved you enough to give you one more little piece of light on yourself. Something has taken seriously inside you the intensity of your yearning for transformation.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Living Presence, about 30:00 Chapter-8-Meditation.
“The one thing that’s absolutely pure, I can see, is that when we look on the universe with gratitude, a situation will shift in the direction of largeness and spaciousness. When we look on it with entitlement, things close down.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont 2019 Dec Gurdjieff-Teilhard, 57:27 17-Friday Morning Teaching.
“I would say that in a semi-conscious human creature, gratitude would be the natural flow on every outlet. Because it’s the thank you for the in-breath. I’m here. To simply breathe out your own being into the world, even if you don’t overlay it with some particular quality you’re striving, held in the sense of gratitude, will already, in and of itself, be sacramental, be healing.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont 2020 Oct Gurdjieff-Teilhard II, 43:41 020-Conscious Circle of Humanity.
“To simply stand present, stand collected, not to allow yourself to be scrambled, not let your atmosphere be raped in all directions by your reactivity, but to stand present and, as you can, generate and bestow these gifts of faith, trust, gentleness, patience. Gratitude is a very good one to start with, a very good one.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Encounter with Evil April 2023 NC, 18:59 04e-Wed pm Teaching Evil.
Logion 17
Yeshua said:
I will give you that which no eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no hand has touched,
and no human heart has conceived.
Jean-Yves Leloup, The Gospel of Thomas, Inner Traditions, 2005
Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.
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