Practice as Training – Aug. 19, 2020
“Wisdom Christianity is practice driven. When you do the practices that nurture the heart, you will sense this connection as a living bond. Your being becomes receptive to the higher meaning. When the practices that sustain this encounter begin to drop out, you revert back to your usual operating system, and the connection fades.” –Cynthia […]
Fasting as Training – Aug. 18, 2020
“A fast is not about penitence and beating up on yourself. That’s a very medieval attitude that totally distorts the meaning of fasting. A fast is really training—exactly like athletic training—so that our whole embodied being can be tuned up to support a spiritual aim we wish to achieve.” –Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus, pg. […]
Our Human Task – Aug. 17, 2020
“Our only truly essential human task here, Jesus teaches, is to grow beyond the survival instincts of the animal brain and egoic operating system into the kenotic joy and generosity of full human personhood. His mission was to show us how to do this. It was a mission he freely accepted. And the energy of […]
