“The real goal in mature spiritual practice is not to replace negativity with positivity, but to develop an impartiality.” Cynthia Bourgeault
“Don’t correct back to positivity if what you want is equanimity” Cynthia Bourgeault
“The creating sun in myself, the direct cultivation in myself of an element that is intelligent, affirming, positive, through hanging out in close proximity to the holy names, which are the holy qualities of divine presence. (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control, trust, mercy, compassion, faithfulness, perseverance, forgiveness, courage, steadfastness, generosity, fidelity). Cynthia Bourgeault, Stonington 2022 2nd Body, 0:00 4.The Alchemy of Suffering.
“The real goal in mature spiritual practice is not to replace negativity with positivity, but to develop an impartiality … to say I can be okay in negativity, I don’t have to change the external situation to make it safe for me to be. I can and I will change the external situation when the time is right, but I don’t have to have that as a precondition of my being okay because I’ve learned how to find myself from this within place so that I’m not dependent on replacing the bottom half of the dualism with the top half.
“And what this means is that when you work in the world without having this inner agenda of having to replace negativity with positivity, then you can work with impartiality, which is the mother of compassion. Nothing frightens you because something in you has found that the roots of trust, the roots of belonging, have gradually come to grow deeper than the roots of the storms that are always battering on the rocky shores of the poor ego self. I want to say that right from the outset about the process of making sun in myself.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Building 2nd Body June 2022, 45:30 2-the-generation-of-spiritual-substances.
“Creating Sun in Myself works directly with positivity. The aim is to strengthen the experience of an affirmative, positive, and intelligent element in myself. And we all have that, don’t we? This affirmative, positive, and intelligent element in myself. Every one of us has a higher story in our building, and occasionally we hit it and we live in it. The practices that are Creating Sun in Myself aim to acknowledge this, affirm it, and then work to stabilize it. You move forward into the world in a way that can be more undefended because you feel more deeply inside that you have the strength and the presence to meet what comes to you in the moment.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Rebuilding Trust Feb 2022, 15:00 Day2.1-Creating-Sun-In-Myself.
“Creating sun in myself tends to be a more regular, basic, proactive practice. You know, you work at it a little bit every day. Your Lectio Divina is a way of creating sun in yourself just by feeding yourself with scripture and other things like that. But as you develop a steady track with one and the creating moon is your default response pattern when situations occur. I actually think that creating moon works better in situations because otherwise you have the danger of just trying to replace negativity with positivity.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Holding Our Planet 2024, 51:23 14 Tuesday eve QA.
Logion 24
His students said to him,
"Take us to the place where you are,
since we are required to seek after it."
He answered them,
"Whoever has an ear for this should listen carefully!
Light shines out from the center of a being of light
and illuminates the whole cosmos.
Whoever fails to become light is a source of darkness."
Uncited quotations from Cynthia Bourgeault are from The Vocabulary of Wisdom.
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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