Love is the Answer. What is the Question?: Selected Writings and Talks 2016-2018

by Cynthia Bourgeault, Laura Ruth, Bill Redfield (Foreword)

Love is the Answer. What is the Question? is a collection of current works birthed in the immediacy of the moment. Cynthia Bourgeault engages in direct call and response with the reader, the world and these tender and tumultuous times. Setting the stage with Teilhard de Chardin's concept of love as "a geophysical force," and her riveting encounter at Tintern Abbey––where Wisdom revealed guidance and direction from which we can all take heart––Cynthia responds to the questions, needs and opportunities brought to the fore in late 2016 to 2018. In remarkably diverse and myriad approaches, from the practical, personal, and social to the infinitely sublime, she invites all of us to participate in the conversation."It takes courage, intelligence, maturity, but mostly Christian intuitive wisdom to write like this!" ~ Richard Rohr, OFM, author and Founding Director of The Center for Action and Contemplation.

192 pages, Paperback

Published May 4, 2018

About the author

Modern day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader, Cynthia Bourgeault divides her time between solitude at her seaside hermitage in Maine, and a demanding schedule traveling globally to teach and spread the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom path.

She has been a long-time advocate of the meditative practice of Centering Prayer and has worked closely with fellow teachers and colleagues including Thomas Keating, Bruno Barnhart, and Richard Rohr. Cynthia has actively participated in numerous inter-spiritual dialogues and events with luminaries and leaders such as A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, Swami Atmarupananda, and Rami Shapiro.

Cynthia is a member of the GPIW (Global Peace Initiative for Women) Contemplative Council and recipient of the 2014 Contemplative Voices award from Shalem Institute. She is a founding Director of both The Contemplative Society and the Aspen Wisdom School. She continues to contribute to The Contemplative Society in her role as Principal Teacher and advisor.

Cynthia is the author of eight books: The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three, The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, The Wisdom Jesus, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, Mystical Hope, The Wisdom Way of Knowing, Chanting the Psalms, and Love is Stronger than Death. She has also authored or contributed to numerous articles on the Christian Wisdom path in publications such as Parabola Magazine, Gnosis Magazine, and Sewanee Theological Review.

Cynthia Bourgeault is currently one of the core faculty members at The Living School for Action and Contemplation.

from http://www.contemplative.org/cynthia-...