“The head will never get the motions that the body gets naturally. Surrender, obedience, attention. You can’t do equanimity in your head!” Cynthia Bourgeault

“Equanimity might sound like serenity. And so what’s the difference? Serenity is the non-reactive heart. Remember, it’s a certain resilience of heart. What serenity and equanimity have in common is that the deeper heart is spectacularly neutral. It’s with everything.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Stonington June 2021, 1:18:55 09 – Tuesday Afternoon Teaching.

“The real goal in mature spiritual practice is not to replace negativity with positivity, but to develop an impartiality that can be with either without getting knocked off your essential concentration of being.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Building 2nd Body June 2022, 45:31 2-the-generation-of-spiritual-substances.

“What we’re really trying to get is an equanimity so that we can live with a little bit of freedom from our preferences. We’re not trying to make them go away. So don’t say that Cynthia taught us that we can’t have like and dislike. Just see them. And don’t let yourself be dragged around by a nose ring. And don’t justify it.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont 2016 Three-Centered Knowing, 36:20 12-Wednesday Evening Reflection.

“I think the Buddhists would come to our rescue and talk about equanimity, which is the capacity to not let preference drive yourself.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont 2016 Three-Centered Knowing, 55:03 02-Tuesday-Morning-WS2016.

“Don’t correct back to positivity if what you want is equanimity” Cynthia Bourgault, The Vocabulary of Wisdom. 

“We should have freedom from all cares, not only cares about bad and vain, but even about good things. In other words, what we’re really talking about is a kind of equanimity that goes beyond grabbing either end of the pain-pleasure principle, the attraction-aversion principle. Because the attraction-aversion principle pulls you back down into the sphere of dividedness again.” Cynthia Bourgault, Kanuga Nov 2015, 04:45 Day 5.2a Morning Final Teaching Part 1 of 2.

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Yeshua says:

“Attachment to matter gives birth to passion without an Image of itself because it is drawn from that which is contrary to its higher nature. The result is that confusion and disturbance resonates throughout one’s whole being. It is for this reason that I told you to find contentment at the level of the heart, and if you are discouraged, take heart in the presence of the Image of your true nature. Those with ears, let them hear this.” 

Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Dialogue One.

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Quotations from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene are from Lynn C Bauman, Ward J Bauman, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Luminous Gospels (Praxis 2008)