Cynthia Bourgeault

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

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 the planet with into the oak tree of our fully realized personhood. He pushes us toward it, teases us, taunts us, encourages us, and ultimately walks us there.

A sophiological Christianity focuses on the path.

What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.

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