Top 23 Cynthia Bourgeault Quotes
#1. Somehow when the heart becomes single, the rest will follow.
#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.
#3. I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don't let me say.
#4. What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.
#5. 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.
#6. 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.
#7. 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.
#8. Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
#9. RESIST no thought; RETAIN no thought; REACT to no thought; RETURN to the sacred word.
#10. I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
#11. Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness.
#12. As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.
#13. 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.
#14. 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.
#15. I don't know what is love about and I'm not sure I believe in it anyway.
#16. Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
#17. 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.
#18. I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.
#19. It's not about right belief; it's about right practice.
#20. 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.
#21. In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.
#22. To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.
#23. A sophiological Christianity focuses on the path.