For at least five centuries, Christianity carried at its heart the knowledge of a spiritual path. Grounded in its image of Jesus the Life-giver, its path was a middle way - not heroic individualism, or death mysticism, or exaggerated asceticism, but an invitation to become unified ones, in dynamic communion with Jesus, the Unified One.... What became of this path?.... In Jesus the Savior - the Rescuer - we have heroics, and an implicit negativity: one gets rescued out of something - in this case, out of sin and death.... As the distance between Christ and humanity grew steadily wider and more unbridgeable, the foundations of the spiritual path gradually eroded.... When the original imperative toward unity [dynamic communion of unified ones with the Unified One] or wholeness, was lost, and self-perfection was seen no longer as a proper human task but as an arrogant denial of human sinfulness, one can legitimately speak of a “Lost Christianity”. ~ Cynthia Bourgeault, “The Gift of Life”
TALK ABOUT IT: What is the Christian spiritual path?
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DO IT (INNER PRACTICE): Becoming one with our longing to become one with Christ
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DO IT (OUTER PRACTICE):: Healing humanity
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- Share:: How can we recognize and cultivate the dynamic communion of humanity with Jesus, the Unified One?
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