Cynthia Bourgeault Quotes

#1. Somehow when the heart becomes single, the rest will follow.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#2. All will come of its own accord in good time and with abundant fullness, so long as one does not attempt to hoard or cling.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#3. What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#4. Blessed are the ones who have become spiritually "domesticated"; the ones who have tamed the wild animal energy within them, the passions and compulsions of our lower nature.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#5. Philippians 2:5: "Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus." The words call us up short as to what we are actually supposed to be doing on this path: not just admiring Jesus, but acquiring his consciousness.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#6. Meditation is the tool you use to "upgrade your operating system," to move from that "either/or" thinking of the binary mind into the more spacious heart awareness that sustains the wisdom way of knowing.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#7. RESIST no thought; RETAIN no thought; REACT to no thought; RETURN to the sacred word.

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#8. Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#9. As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.

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#10. When the field of vision has been unified, the inner being comes to rest, and that inner peaceableness flows into the outer world is harmony and compassion.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#11. What Jesus is saying here, powerfully and clearly, is that if you do the work of transforming your being, moving beyond the egoic mind, then you become a living spirit.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#12. It's very, very simple. You sit, either in a chair or on a prayer stool or mat, and allow your heart to open toward that invisible but always present Origin of all that exists.

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#13. It's not about right belief; it's about right practice.

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#14. Somewhere in those depths of silence I came upon my first experiences of God as a loving presence that was always near, and prayer as a simple trust in that presence.

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#15. To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.

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#16. A sophiological Christianity focuses on the path.

Cynthia Bourgeault