Cynthia Bourgeault - The Contemplative Practice of Living from Good

The ‘Both And’ Paradox

The ‘both and’ paradox of nondualism: “The capacity to bear paradox without the need to immediately resolve it is an...

"When Jesus said, in my father's house are many mansions, I think that the Great Chain of Being's maps allow us one...

“The quality of your transformed work, your striving, your sincerity, your generous heart in being willing to offer...

“What may be called the ‘astral body’ is obtained by means of friction, by the struggle between yes and no in man.”...

“What if attention is the new form of time in the fourth dimension? That time gets converted into attention, which...

Time and consciousness, time and attention. “I’m more and more persuaded that attention is the new time in Gebser’s...

He who aspires to authentic spiritual experience never confounds the intensity of the experience with the truth that...

“The Quakers taught a practice of welcoming that inner light of conscience when it entered, standing still in it,...

Ora et Labora … no transformation without washed dishes! Ora et Labora: The Benedictine Foundation "It is humility...

The more that you have a truly humble spirit in the old monastic sense, the more you become free. “It's the gentle...

Those practicing lectio divina steep themselves in the words of a text, becoming one with them, lingering over them,...

Intellectual presence decreases our alertness to present moment awareness. “The whole work is based on extending the...