The more that you have a truly humble spirit in the old monastic sense, the more you become free.
“It’s the gentle laying down of self, the humble work, the not asking for visions, the not asking for illuminations, not even caring if anybody notices that you exist. Because, hey, you do exist. And you exist already in a relational field of love which is so deep and boundless that it doesn’t need to be affirmed. So, to come to prayer in humility, in willingness to give, in a genuine wish that humankind and all sentient being be made better, in the genuine willingness to be given nothing, but to give because it’s the nature, it’s the divine nature to give. And we have that in us.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Heart of Centering Prayer – 2016, 17:50 The Heart of Centering Prayer Part 4 of 4.
“Your goal is to be clean, to be still, to be poor, to be humble, to be bare, so that you participate in the collective mystical intelligence which is always unfolding this planet, but gets thrown back when we try to take it home to bits that are disconnected. So the more that you become truly humble in the old monastic sense, the more you become free, the more you become non-identified, the more you become a maestro of Imaginal, you know, brushstrokes.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Imaginal WS 8-2020, 1:17:00 0817 IWS Monday PM Teaching.
“There is a power that comes in concentrated, full, attentive, pure, humble presence directed towards a goal.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Kanuga Nov 2015, 10:00 Day 3.6a Evening Part 1 of 3.
“When Jesus says you should be in this world but not of it, when you translate that into meaning: if you can live in World 48 according to the causality of World 24, you will do good on this planet.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Imaginal WS 8-2020, 11:00 0819 IWS Wednesday PM Teaching.
“Humility, being the law of spiritual health, implies consciousness of the difference and distance between the center of human consciousness and the center of divine consciousness.” Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, p165
“It is humility alone, due to poverty, obedience and chastity—the three universal and eternal vows which renders us ‘inspirable’. It cannot be helped…the spiritual world is essentially moral. And inspiration is the fruit of humility in effort and of effort with humility. Ora et Labora is therefore the key to the door of inspiration, as it is the key to many other doors besides.” Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, p393-394.
Logion 37
His students asked him,
"When will you manifest yourself to us?
How long will it be
before we see you as you truly are?
Yeshua replied,
"On the day you strip yourselves naked
like those little children,
and take your clothes and trample them
on the ground under your feet without shame,
then you will be able
to look upon the son of the Living One
without fear."
Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, Jeremy Tarcher, 1985
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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