Cynthia Bourgeault - The Contemplative Practice of Living from Good

Good Conscience

“The joy of good conscience is the accord between the moral rhythms of the lower self and the higher Self.”...

On chastity and being emotionally present: “The purifying of the emotional center corresponds directly with a monastic...

“God made you to be a precious cog in the wheel of enormous dynamism of compassion and mercy. You receive, you give.”...

"If you're yearning for God ... just pause right in the middle of that ache and feel it and understand it as the...

“Stand firm, do not bend, is exactly what the tradition is talking about when they say surrender.” Cynthia Bourgeault...

The Law of Three: from the primordial ground of arising to accepting the tensions of daily life. “Third force has its...

“It's very, very good to be a hanged man vis-a-vis a spiritual discernment, because the head is going to be the last...

"The states or stages of the soul corresponding to concentration, meditation and contemplation are those of...

The Angel and the Lion constitute the other pair of opposites on the cross of man’s instinctivity. The Angel’s moral...

“These laws of the Work cannot remain forms of blind external obedience but become things that you acknowledge and...

“It’s not the nature of the Divine providence to lay on us more than we're really willing to bear. You won't be able...

The idea of justice on this Earth is illusion. All of sleeping humanity belongs to a tiny planet which is a kind of...