Key teachings from this modern mystic on contemplative practice, the Wisdom tradition, and non-dual awareness.
"You really see this in the 'blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness'. Because as so many of those great parables say, the yearning that you have for the divine is already the yearning that the divine has for you." Cynthia Bourgeault "To exalt...
from the teachings of Cynthia BourgeaultSacred Servants: Evening Benedictions and Blessings May you rest, knowing your grief tonight carries the essence of love, the prima materia from which new worlds are shaped.May your heartbreak for this frightened planet be...
“In a moment of remorse of conscience, you finally take responsibility. And in that moment, you are free of blame and self-justification.” Cynthia Bourgeault Conscience in Different Worlds "In World 24, we're moved by conscience. Conscience is something we can glimpse...
"To specialize oneself in order to gain temporary advantages or to be moved only by the hunger and thirst for truth beauty and goodness—here is the choice that every human being, every community, every tradition or spiritual school, must make." Valentin Tomberg The...
from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault on conscious presence The Wide Space of Present MomentMay you rest knowingthat today you practicedthe hardest thing:standing inside yourself.May the moments when attentionwas not lost to its objectbut held free and presenthave...
From our earth plane perspective, this manifests as a series of meaningful coincidences or striking synchronicity. And these features are indeed the primary hallmark of Imaginal causality at play. Cynthia Bourgeault Contrasting Forms of Causality "In World 48, it's...
from the teachings on perichoresis of Cynthia Bourgeault May you rest knowingyou moved todaywithin the Great Dance—both the dance itselfand the one who danced.May your steps,clumsy or sure,sound their notein the eternal pattern.May you trustthe force that danced youis...
“[A man] may act from Good, from seeing the good of acting so. This develops the internal man.” Maurice Nicoll “Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." (Matthew XIII xi-xiii) The...
“The joy of good conscience is the accord between the moral rhythms of the lower self and the higher Self.” Meditations on the Tarot The Nature of Conscience "The word conscience ("con-science") contains the idea of balance, for it implies 'simultaneous knowing', i.e....
On chastity and being emotionally present: “The purifying of the emotional center corresponds directly with a monastic vow of chastity.” Cynthia Bourgeault Defining True Chastity "The vow of chastity means putting into practice the resolution to live according to...
“God made you to be a precious cog in the wheel of enormous dynamism of compassion and mercy. You receive, you give.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Essential Nature of Compassion “The demand for compassion remains unbroken throughout the realms. But if your heart has no...
"If you're yearning for God ... just pause right in the middle of that ache and feel it and understand it as the innate language of the divine love for you." Cynthia Bourgeault Yearning as Divine Reciprocity "As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable...