Key teachings from this modern mystic on contemplative practice, the Wisdom tradition, and non-dual awareness.
“You are the veil that hides the paradise you seek” The spiritual veil is our tendency to make everything external or transactional. The Paradox of Finite Being Not sin, but the weight and density of created finite being-ness itself. "[Rafe] was the one who was...
Incarnational cosmogonic Christian mysticism: The divine fragrance requires both manifest and unmanifest in mutual embrace. The Core Question Why does anything exist at all? "What in the world is cosmogonic mysticism? When we put that title on it, it's like, huh? You...
"When you move into Imaginal causality and into Integral consciousness, time takes on the dimension of an intensifying factor, rather than a linear metronome." Cynthia Bourgeault Not Collapsed Into Same-As “Is integral consciousness the same as the imaginal realm? And...
“Unless you cancel your debts, nothing in you can grow. It is said in the Lord's Prayer: ‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.' Feeling you are owed, feeling debts, stops everything.” Maurice Nicoll Debts and Debtors The Heaven-Earth Balance Grace operates...
“When the mind comes into the heart, the new operating system of nonduality kicks in.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Multiplicity of Ordinary Being "Not one of you here has a real permanent, unchanging 'I'. Not one of you here has real unity of being. All of you are nothing...
Wise poetry from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault CONSENTI.Unbearable stillness of unredeemed love. Waiting, before consent. Great wealth aching toward poverty.Love with no vessel. Fullness without form. Stuck in dull, dead latency.II.The wilderness. Seven...
“In the Lords Prayer there are innumerable ideas. Each phrase has inner octaves." Maurice Nicoll Sacred Gestures of Exchange “Many people have observed that when you say the Lord’s Prayer you look at how exchange is so much a part of it. This becomes particularly...
“Our experience seems to be governed by the law of linear time and linear causality and so it looks like things come to us from some place that doesn’t exist yet which we call the future.” Cynthia Bourgeault Beyond Linear Time: The Spatial Reality “When you get deeply...
“The witnessing selfhood, or Imaginal selfhood, is of a lighter density: contained, non-identified, collected, balanced, and gathered.” Cynthia Bourgeault A Missing Name for Subtle Selfhood “There is a selfhood, just as there is subtle perception, there’s also subtle...
“Jacob Boehme says the soul begins in the fire principle and as we are willing to submit to the alchemy of transformation, that's how something emerges.” Cynthia Bourgeault From Friction to Self-Perceptivity "What [Jacob Boehme] is calling anguish, if you took it down...
Nightly blessings from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault May you rest knowing the veil of your finitude is the form through which the infinite learns to touch,without consuming.May the bounded love you offered,pressed tight within the day's limits,have glowed more...
“If you say yes, if you show up, be present, you will be cared for and you will receive assistance, and your spiritual journey will unfold.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Fundamental Commitment “If you show up, you have a responsibility to be present. Choose what you show up...