Sayings of the Gospel of Thomas. Jesus’s direct teachings on recognizing the divine within.
Blessed are poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Good is the alchemical property resulting from struggle. It’s the quality of your Being that you offer up.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Encounter with Evil Wisdom School in Valle Crucis “The deep...
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, Maurice Nicoll, and the Gospel of Thomas on the Philosophy of Time. “This particular dimension that we live in seems to be governed by the laws of linear time and linear causality. It looks like things come to us from a place that...
Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. The Psychological Account-Book Maurice Nicoll talks of a "form of identifying called making accounts. A man begins to feel that people owe him, that he deserves better treatment, more rewards, more recognition, and he...
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...
Have you ever thought how much your vanity and pride put you in the opposites? Blessed are the poor in spirit means not to identify with oneself. Maurice Nicoll p325 This Impression will focus on non-identifying as a means of isolating from life. Maurice Nicoll states...
Quotes representing a core idea that flows through Cynthia Bourgeault’s teachings: the basic gestures of gathering and letting go, balancing will and aim with a posture of receptivity, navigating with attention and surrender. “Attention and surrender need to be in...
Finding Real Aim in Self Transformations Cynthia Bourgeault: You can’t move the plank you’re standing on! Maurice Nicoll: You can’t change your level of Being from your current level of Being. Albert Einstein: You can’t solve a problem from the same thinking...
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...
Our Daily Bread meaning in esoteric Christianity Maurice Nicoll talks about ‘our daily bread’ in the Lord’s Prayer: “In Greek it does not mean daily, but ‘what is needful.’ It also has the meaning of ‘trans substantial bread’ or ‘what is beyond ourselves.’” p941 Bread...
What is the Soul in the Teachings of Geoges Ivanovich Gurdjieff and the Gospel of Thomas? I’ve become comfortable with Essence and Personality as the twin pillars of internal and external in the philosophy of Gurdjieff, but not so clear with where and how the Soul...
"You can think of Self Remembering as a kind of lifting oneself up from the uproar of things in oneself." Maurice Nicoll Separation from Events "There is an ancient definition, or description, or indication, of Self-Remembering: I come out of everything unto myself....