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Top 25 Cynthia Bourgeault Quotes (2025 Update)

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “It’s not about right belief; it’s about right practice.”

1. “It’s not about right belief; it’s about right practice.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “And so meditation rests on the wager that if you can simply break the tyranny of your ordinary awareness, the rest will begin to unfold itself. At first when you begin a practice of meditation, it feels like a place you go to. You may think of it as “my inner sanctuary” or “my place apart with God.” But as the practice becomes more and more established in you so that this inner sanctuary begins to flow out into your life, it becomes more and more a place you come from.”

2. “And so meditation rests on the wager that if you can simply break the tyranny of your ordinary awareness, the rest will begin to unfold itself. At first when you begin a practice of meditation, it feels like a place you go to. You may think of it as “my inner sanctuary” or “my place apart with God.” But as the practice becomes more and more established in you so that this inner sanctuary begins to flow out into your life, it becomes more and more a place you come from.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “Centering Prayer is not about developing concentration, attaining clear mind, conscious presence, a strong witnessing “I,” some desired state. In Centering Prayer you merely practice and practice the core kenotic motion: “let go, make space, unclench” – thought by thought by thought.”

5. “Centering Prayer is not about developing concentration, attaining clear mind, conscious presence, a strong witnessing “I,” some desired state. In Centering Prayer you merely practice and practice the core kenotic motion: “let go, make space, unclench” – thought by thought by thought.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “I find nothing in the Gospel of Thomas that contradicts any of Jesus’s teachings in the canonical gospels. Rather, it rounds them out metaphysically and creates a newfound sense of awe as we see just how original and subtle his understanding really is. He is the first truly integral teacher to appear on this planet. As we take a fresh look at these teachings at once familiar and strange, we’re catapulted forward again along a path that rings with the power of truth.”

6. “I find nothing in the Gospel of Thomas that contradicts any of Jesus’s teachings in the canonical gospels. Rather, it rounds them out metaphysically and creates a newfound sense of awe as we see just how original and subtle his understanding really is. He is the first truly integral teacher to appear on this planet. As we take a fresh look at these teachings at once familiar and strange, we’re catapulted forward again along a path that rings with the power of truth.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness.”

7. “Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you will kill you.”

8. “If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you will kill you.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “Most important of all, do everything you can to nurture your spiritual intelligence. It is your only genuine source of hope, direction, meaning, and comfort.”

9. “Most important of all, do everything you can to nurture your spiritual intelligence. It is your only genuine source of hope, direction, meaning, and comfort.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “We all live with this terrible, heartbreaking hypocrisy in Christianity, when the teaching finally leaves us in th dust. How do we die before we die? How do we love our neighbors as ourselves? How do we bridge the gap between what we believe and what we can actually live?”

10. “We all live with this terrible, heartbreaking hypocrisy in Christianity, when the teaching finally leaves us in th dust. How do we die before we die? How do we love our neighbors as ourselves? How do we bridge the gap between what we believe and what we can actually live?”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.”

11. “As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “Somehow when the heart becomes single, the rest will follow.”

13. “Somehow when the heart becomes single, the rest will follow.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “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.”

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.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.”

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

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.”

16. “What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “Where there’s surrender, synchronicity tends to follow, which is one of the most delightful side effects of a surrender practice.”

17. “Where there’s surrender, synchronicity tends to follow, which is one of the most delightful side effects of a surrender practice.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “Jesus never asked anyone to form a church, ordain priests, develop elaborate rituals and institutional cultures, and splinter into denominations. His two great requests were that we “love one another as I have loved you” and that we share bread and wine together as an open channel of that interabiding love.”

18. “Jesus never asked anyone to form a church, ordain priests, develop elaborate rituals and institutional cultures, and splinter into denominations. His two great requests were that we “love one another as I have loved you” and that we share bread and wine together as an open channel of that interabiding love.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “No one, of course, had foreseen that the first annual Eagle Island Wisdom School would follow so closely on the heels of the events of September 11, but in its shadow our time together was imbued with a newfound sense of purpose that what we were doing was no longer merely a spiritual luxury but a prophetic first step toward the recovery of a vision of human purpose badly eclipsed-and desperately needed-in the Western world.”

19. “No one, of course, had foreseen that the first annual Eagle Island Wisdom School would follow so closely on the heels of the events of September 11, but in its shadow our time together was imbued with a newfound sense of purpose that what we were doing was no longer merely a spiritual luxury but a prophetic first step toward the recovery of a vision of human purpose badly eclipsed-and desperately needed-in the Western world.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “You are the breath of God. You are the way God is aware of God in the immediacy of your life. You are the way God feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, frees the wrongly imprisoned. You are the way God brings justice, mercy, and humility to life. But because you want to be more, you end up being less: the way God brings horror, hate, and holocaust to every corner of the globe.”

20. “You are the breath of God. You are the way God is aware of God in the immediacy of your life. You are the way God feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, frees the wrongly imprisoned. You are the way God brings justice, mercy, and humility to life. But because you want to be more, you end up being less: the way God brings horror, hate, and holocaust to every corner of the globe.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “Wisdom is passionate and heartfelt, giving rise to compassion and love.”

21. “Wisdom is passionate and heartfelt, giving rise to compassion and love.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “The Risen Lord is indeed risen. Present, intimate, creative, ‘closer than your own heartbeat,’ accessed through your vulnerability, your capacity for intimacy. The imaginal realm is real, and through it you will never be separated from any one or anything you have ever loved, for love is the ground in which you live and move and have your being. This is the message that Mary Magdalene has perennially to bring. This is the message we most need to hear.”

22. “The Risen Lord is indeed risen. Present, intimate, creative, ‘closer than your own heartbeat,’ accessed through your vulnerability, your capacity for intimacy. The imaginal realm is real, and through it you will never be separated from any one or anything you have ever loved, for love is the ground in which you live and move and have your being. This is the message that Mary Magdalene has perennially to bring. This is the message we most need to hear.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “This is crucial: The reward for following Wisdom is immediate. The Way to is the Way of.”

23. “This is crucial: The reward for following Wisdom is immediate. The Way to is the Way of.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “To walk the way of Wisdom is to become transparent to the Light that is your very being.”

24. “To walk the way of Wisdom is to become transparent to the Light that is your very being.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “Beneath the surface there is a deeper and vastly more authentic Self, but its presence is usually veiled by the clamor of the smaller “I” with its.”

25. “Beneath the surface there is a deeper and vastly more authentic Self, but its presence is usually veiled by the clamor of the smaller “I” with its.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault Quote: “Judaism says that you are to partner with God in the work of tikkun, repairing the world with justice, kindness, and humility.”

26. “Judaism says that you are to partner with God in the work of tikkun, repairing the world with justice, kindness, and humility.”

— Cynthia Bourgeault

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