You Are the Veil: the Benediction for Evening
From the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault

May you rest knowing
you are the veil
that hides the paradise you seek—
the simple weight
of finite being itself.

May you trust the promise:
nothing hidden will remain secret,
everything concealed will be revealed.

May you release
the constructed self you carry.
All lies open
before heaven.

May you touch the remorse of being,
the sharp edge
that cuts you into existence
and separates you from the whole.
Blessed are they that mourn.

May you sleep,
resting in participation,
pure coinciding with what is.

Amen

Logion 6
His students asked him,
“Do you want us to fast?”
“How shall we pray?”
“Should we give offerings?”
“From what foods must we abstain? “
Yeshua answered,
“Stop lying.
Do not do what you hate,
because everything here lies open before heaven.
Nothing hidden will remain secret,
for the veil will be stripped away
from what lies concealed behind it.”

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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