Key teachings from this modern mystic on contemplative practice, the Wisdom tradition, and non-dual awareness.
Circles and Spirals: “Providence sees to it that the circles formed by the serpent are not entirely closed, and that the series of its circles is changed into a series of as many spirals.” Tomberg The Nature of Spirals: Growth in Two Dimensions "The so-called...
For life transformation, “any conditions that are voluntarily embraced will be your teacher and will be the locus where you do your conscious labor. So that's very, very important” Cynthia Bourgeault The Ego and the Spiritual Journey "I just wonder if you have any...
“To walk through that eye of a needle and come out on the other side, what we’re immediately released into is a freedom to do the right thing, to follow conscience.” Cynthia Bourgeault Psychological Richness as Barrier “A person who believes in himself, in his virtue...
An evening benediction on poverty in spirit from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault Richness of Poverty in Spirit May you settle tonight into the quiet borders of your own being, receiving your finitude as the veil that holds the paradise you seek.May you trust that...
“Stay present in the moment. Let your feet and your breath and your willingness return you to the moment. And remember that it's at the moment of return that the real spiritual work is done." Cynthia Bourgeault The Portal of Awakening "What they call the unitive or...
Our heart is really the spiritual vessel in us that mediates between our finite being and the infinite that loves us. Cynthia Bourgeault The Call to Inner Selection "You have not begun to select—to separate—to throw away the bad and put the good into vessels. If you...
The Gospel of Philip carries a teaching so old: that death entered the world through separation, and that the wound at the origin of things heals only through union. Philip calls it the bridal chamber. Voices circling from different centuries, different forms,...
“It is said: ’Forgive us of our debts as we forgive our debtors.’ Feeling you are owed, feeling debts, stops everything. You hold back yourself and you hold back the other person.” Maurice Nicoll The Spiritual Balance of Forgiveness "It is the balance whose one scale...
A harmonic Impression on spiritual surrender to Divine permeation. Yeshua says...Whoever drinks what flows from my mouthwill come to be as I amand I also will come to be as they are,so that what is hidden will become manifest.Logion 108, Bauman Divine Permeation...
“The practice of Tonglen, a healing practice that puts your heart where your mind is. Breathe in the pain … Breathe out blessing.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Given Gift “Air is necessary in order to breathe and to live. Is not the air which surrounds us a perfect...
From the sayings of Thomas: Humanity started poorly, on the path of division. But the path to unity is still open. There are five evergreen trees waiting in paradise. Logion 19 Yeshua says... Blessed are all who come to live at the point of arising — their "genesis,"...
“A relational field occurs when there is an exchange of information or spiritual energy between two points … any kind of finite unit in which information is being exchanged across structural levels creates a relational field.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Source of Selfhood...