The spiritual organ of perception that allows direct knowing beyond ordinary thought.
“To walk through that eye of a needle and come out on the other side, what we’re immediately released into is a freedom to do the right thing, to follow conscience.” Cynthia Bourgeault Psychological Richness as Barrier “A person who believes in himself, in his virtue...
In Jesus you see a heart centered approach emerging in his teaching. The marriage of heaven and earth in the ground of the heart. The living colors of the rainbow that appear in the sky … we see unity in diversity An Intermediary Zone “Doubt is more than a...
"When the heart is aligned with its eternal image, abundance cascades forth from that place of origin.” Cynthia Bourgeault When Yeshua appeared to his disciples in glory on the mountain, he was great, he was not small. It was he who made his disciples great, so...
Our heart is really the spiritual vessel in us that mediates between our finite being and the infinite that loves us. Cynthia Bourgeault The Call to Inner Selection "You have not begun to select—to separate—to throw away the bad and put the good into vessels. If you...
“The witnessing selfhood, or Imaginal selfhood, is of a lighter density: contained, non-identified, collected, balanced, and gathered.” Cynthia Bourgeault A Missing Name for Subtle Selfhood “There is a selfhood, just as there is subtle perception, there’s also subtle...
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...