Eye of the Heart by Cynthia Bourgeault

Author:Cynthia Bourgeault [Bourgeault, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2020-09-08T00:00:00+00:00

The teachings of Christian East follow a parallel track, with an increasing emphasis on a quality known as attention of the heart as the required prerequisite for following Christ directly into World 24—“putting on the mind of Christ” in the more familiar Pauline language. The eleventh-century Orthodox teacher Symeon the New Theologian precociously recognized that this mind of Christ actually emerged from a significantly higher level of consciousness than we humans can normally sustain; without the mediating presence of this inner attention, he bluntly claimed, it is flatly impossible to live the gospel teaching:

In a word, he who does not have attention in himself and does not guard his mind cannot become pure in heart and so cannot see God. He who does not have attention in himself cannot be poor in spirit, cannot weep and be contrite, nor be gentle and meek, nor hunger and thirst after righteousness, nor be merciful or a peacemaker, nor suffer persecution for righteousness sake.8

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