“Beginning in infancy (or even before) each of us, in response to perceived threats to our well-being, develops a false self: a set of protective behaviors driven at root by a sense of need and lack. The essence of the… — Cynthia Bourgeault Copy Share Image
“As we actually taste the flavor of what he's teaching, we begin to see that it's not proverbs for daily living, or ways of being virtuous. He's proposing a total meltdown and recasting of human consciousness, bursting through the tiny acorn-selfhood that we arrived on the planet with into the oak tree of our fully realized personhood. He pushes us… — Cynthia Bourgeault Copy Share
“As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.” — Cynthia Bourgeault Copy Share Image
“To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.” — Cynthia Bourgeault Copy Share Image
“RESIST no thought; RETAIN no thought; REACT to no thought; RETURN to the sacred word.” — Cynthia Bourgeault Copy Share Image
“Beginning in infancy (or even before) each of us, in response to perceived threats to our well-being, develops a false self: a set of… — Cynthia Bourgeault Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the ones who have become spiritually "domesticated"; the ones who have tamed the wild animal energy within them, the passions and compulsions… — Cynthia Bourgeault Copy Share Image
“Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness.” — Cynthia Bourgeault Copy Share Image
“All will come of its own accord in good time and with abundant fullness, so long as one does not attempt to hoard or… — Cynthia Bourgeault Copy Share Image
“When the field of vision has been unified, the inner being comes to rest, and that inner peaceableness flows into the outer world is… — Cynthia Bourgeault Copy Share Image
