Living from Good
Key teachings from this modern mystic on contemplative practice, the Wisdom tradition, and non-dual awareness.
A harmonic Impression on spiritual surrender to Divine permeation. The DyerThere is a dyerwhose Good dyes permeate.The color and the clothbecome one thing.I lower what I carryinto the only vat there is.Let the dye be genuine.Let it go all the way through.Whatever this...
“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. Wisdom for the WoundPrepare all things,energies that obeythe quiet truthof inner condition.Beneath...
“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...
“You are the veil that hides the paradise you seek” The spiritual veil is our tendency to make everything external or transactional. The Veil May you rest knowingyou are the veilthat hides the paradise you seek—the simple weightof finite being itself.May you...
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...