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

Cynthia Bourgeault
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  3. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama Xiv

  4. As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap... - Pythagoras

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More Quotes By Cynthia Bourgeault
  1. A sophiological Christianity focuses on the path.

  2. 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...

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

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

  5. What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.

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