The spiritual organ of perception that allows direct knowing beyond ordinary thought.
The Christianity of resurrection and ascension “absolutely demands the ability to move between worlds and to see with the eye of the heart, and to receive ongoing teaching, help, and support from a risen Jesus.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Bold Paradox of Resurrection...
The single eye unites two ways of seeing: the inner eye gazing into eternity and the outer eye engaging worldly wonders, creating unity of vision. "The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light; but if thine...
“With the engagement of this property of sympathetic resonance, being able to fully enter the insides of things, and a blind beholding into the naked being of God himself.” Cynthia Bourgeault Meaning as Resonance "Meaning is not explanation. Meaning is resonance."...
The factors for the being-impulse of your conscience lie in the sorrow of our creator. The tears of God, to put it in metaphoric form." Cynthia Bourgeault The Divine Origin of Conscience "[Cynthia quoting Gurdjieff in Beelzebub's Tales]: 'The factors for the being...
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...
🕯 Evening Blessing and Benediction: The Cloak and the Flame May you come to see the cloak you wear —not with shame, but with the clarity of love.May the weight that once named yoube revealed as the garment of forgetting,and may your soul no longer mistake its voice...
“Attention in the heart, in the great tradition of Orthodox Hesychasm, praying from the heart.” Cynthia Bourgeault. “The unique characteristics of Centering Prayer, which can be felt as a distinct shift, a distinct, subtle, energetic transformation, I relate that...
Spiritual heart, eye of the heart, as the gateway to higher realms. “Attachment to matter gives birth to passion without an Image of itself because it is drawn from that which is contrary to its higher nature. The result is that confusion and disturbance...
Quotes from Cynthia Bourgeault and others on seeing with the heart. “Vigilance is a collected state, staying within your atmosphere, with attention of the heart.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Holding Our Planet Wisdom School, May 2024 “Vigilance equals attention of the...
Quotes from Cynthia Bourgeault and Maurice Nicoll on Imaginal Seeing, or seeing from the eye of the heart. “It takes a higher seeing to spot a lower seeing that you’re trapped in.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Holding Our Planet Wisdom School, May 2024 “With...