Sayings of the Gospel of Thomas. Jesus’s direct teachings on recognizing the divine within.
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 Gospel of Philip carries a teaching so old: that death entered the world through separation, and that the wound at the origin of things heals only through union. Philip calls it the bridal chamber. Voices circling from different centuries, different forms,...
“It is said: ’Forgive us of our debts as we forgive our debtors.’ Feeling you are owed, feeling debts, stops everything. You hold back yourself and you hold back the other person.” Maurice Nicoll The Spiritual Balance of Forgiveness "It is the balance whose one scale...
A harmonic Impression on spiritual surrender to Divine permeation. Yeshua says...Whoever drinks what flows from my mouthwill come to be as I amand I also will come to be as they are,so that what is hidden will become manifest.Logion 108, Bauman Divine Permeation...
“The practice of Tonglen, a healing practice that puts your heart where your mind is. Breathe in the pain … Breathe out blessing.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Given Gift “Air is necessary in order to breathe and to live. Is not the air which surrounds us a perfect...
From the sayings of Thomas: Humanity started poorly, on the path of division. But the path to unity is still open. There are five evergreen trees waiting in paradise. Logion 19 Yeshua says... Blessed are all who come to live at the point of arising — their "genesis,"...
“A relational field occurs when there is an exchange of information or spiritual energy between two points … any kind of finite unit in which information is being exchanged across structural levels creates a relational field.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Source of Selfhood...
“You are the veil that hides the paradise you seek” The spiritual veil is our tendency to make everything external or transactional. The Paradox of Finite Being Not sin, but the weight and density of created finite being-ness itself. "[Rafe] was the one who was...
Incarnational cosmogonic Christian mysticism: The divine fragrance requires both manifest and unmanifest in mutual embrace. The Core Question Why does anything exist at all? "What in the world is cosmogonic mysticism? When we put that title on it, it's like, huh? You...
"When you move into Imaginal causality and into Integral consciousness, time takes on the dimension of an intensifying factor, rather than a linear metronome." Cynthia Bourgeault Not Collapsed Into Same-As “Is integral consciousness the same as the imaginal realm? And...
“Unless you cancel your debts, nothing in you can grow. It is said in the Lord's Prayer: ‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.' Feeling you are owed, feeling debts, stops everything.” Maurice Nicoll Debts and Debtors The Heaven-Earth Balance Grace operates...
“When the mind comes into the heart, the new operating system of nonduality kicks in.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Multiplicity of Ordinary Being "Not one of you here has a real permanent, unchanging 'I'. Not one of you here has real unity of being. All of you are nothing...