Cynthia Bourgeault: wisdom gospels

The gospels of Mary Magdalene, Thomas, and Philip all clearly belong to the wider tradition of universal wisdom, or sophia perennis, with its core notion of conscious and integral transformation. Unlike the canonical gospels, which emphasize “right belief” as the basis for salvation, these wisdom gospels emphasize “right practice.” They are transformation-minded.



Cynthia Bourgeault

Some Richard Rohr Quotes

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

The great discovery is always that what we are searching for has already been given! I did not find it; it found me.

If it’s authentically experienced, Christianity is the overcoming of the split from God’s side once and for all!

The people who know God well—the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

Forgiveness has nothing to do with logic. It is the final breakdown of logic.

God has quietly broken through and stands perfectly revealed in the now of things.





Richard Rohr

Thomas Merton: logic of God

There is a vast difference between the logic of men and the logic of God...

There is indeed no human logic in the ways of interior prayer, only Divine paradox.




Thomas Merton

Abhishiktananda: Jesus is the guru

Jesus is not the founder-head of a religion; that came later. Jesus is the guru who announces the mystery.



Abhishiktananda [Fr Henri le Saux]

Abhishiktananda: essential mystery

Christ is less real in his temporal history than in the essential mystery of my being.



Abhishiktananda [Fr Henri le Saux]

Abhishiktananda: a mere idol

As long as man attempts to seize and hold God in his words and concepts, he is embracing a mere idol.



Abhishiktananda [Fr Henri le Saux]

Thomas Merton: about ourselves

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.



Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton: our idea of God

So much depends on our idea of God! Yet no idea of Him, however pure and perfect, is adequate to express Him as He really is.



Thomas Merton