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Remember Yourself

Remember Yourself...

Find what you want:

Be simple and sincere:

By understanding be freed from illusion

and from fear:

Remember yourself - always and everywhere

~Rodney Collin

Monday, May 28, 2012

There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water. See who is in there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally. Least of all, ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!

Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

The Elders Oraibi

Arizona Hopi Nation

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Where the Divine

Where the Divine Has Touched Man...

We are a small outpost in life,
where the divine has touched Man.
It is so delicate a sneeze can make it disappear
or even a nice thought.
We need each other to survive.

~Mervyn Brady

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Like You...

Like You...

Flowers are Mother Earth's gifts to the Soul

- Like you

They share in common stems, petals and seeds, yet they blossom individually

- Like you

Through God's eyes they are beautiful

Their fragrance uplifting

Colors astounding

Textures silken

-Just like you

They stand tall, short, wide and narrow

Flowers are rooted firm, yet sway in the wind

They provide shelter, food, beauty, pain and healing

-Like you

United in a vase they display a symphony for the senses

Grouped together they are greater than the sum of each one

-Like you

From darkness, a flower buds into life containing its potential

In youth, she springs forth announcing herself

In maturity, life begins to fade, petals wilt

Upon the flower's demise, her seeds are dispersed

Anxious to begin anew in a continuum of Mother Earth's gifts to the Soul

-Like you.

At This Moment...

At This Moment...

It is at this moment

just before dawn...

the Lovers meet

to hush in their ears

so many notes of love..

to display caresses

in the sky...

and warm the heart

that opens at sunrise.

My God, it is so beautiful

to know you inside of me!

But it is just as beautiful

to run outside and

watch You, projected

through all your Creation!

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Believe in the Impossible

Believe in the Impossible...

Believe in the impossible for then you will find it possible. Make yourself quiet, ask your heart what you are able to believe and do, then cling to that and do it with all the force that you can muster. And never let the voice of logic and probability prevent you.

~Rodney Collin

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Good Advice

Good Advice...

I remember sitting with Mervyn one day. I was telling him that I was considering not attending meetings for a little while because I was having friction with a student. Mervyn said that it was all the more important that I continue without interruption to attend meetings. He said that even though I was encountering friction, that missing meetings would be allowing my machine (mind/body) to make the rules for my Work. He reminded me that it was something in my machine that was having friction with the student, and that it was the students' mechanics and not their soul that was causing me to lose energy. By not allowing my machine to buffer (put up walls or blocks) would provide me with insights about my mechanics and ultimately my feature. In turn, this would help me to put the I's in their proper place and begin to see beyond my own as well as, the mechanics of the other student. Lastly, he encouraged me to see that there was a soul growing in the other student, and that they could be a strong third force (motivation) for me to continue to Remember My Soul. I took his advice...."and that has made all the difference..."

~JM

Becoming

Becoming...

We are all in the state of becoming....We need each other to do this Work.....I think it is so important that we not dismiss one another or eliminate a student because of the friction they give us. Intervals are part of the process....sometimes a student can have a bad month, or week or year...This of course does not mean we can make excuses for our mechanics..As long as valuation is not lost and crime is not committed.... So be it...the interval will pass...it's part of becoming...

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

No Matter What

No Matter What...

Not matter what

never cease to study

and work

on your

Soul.

~Mervyn Brady

Sunday, May 20, 2012

The Reward

The Reward...

The reward of an individual who serves God out of love consists in experiencing celestial joy of a wondrous character... One who serves the King of the Universe out of love, without expectation of reward in this world or the next --but out of love alone-- will be compensated by the Holy One Himself. If he serves Him for the sake of some earthly reward, for the purpose of acquiring wealth or having children, he receives his reward entirely in this world. Just as this world is transitory, so too his reward. And if he serves God for the sake of securing a place in Paradise, his reward will be administered by the angels who tend there. But if he devotes himself to God out of pure love, his soul cleaves to the "Infinite One"... Those who attain the grade of super-soul are called God's lovers.

-Elijah De Vidas

The Journey Home

The Journey Home...

"We have to learn how to Love and be able to find our way back home."

~Mervyn Brady

It is our Work to abandon all former knowing of ourselves, to pierce into all layers of ourselves and be known by the unknown. In my experience the layers are not removed,nor do they disappear, but through the courage of Being, they are seen and come to be parts of the maze the ladder finds its way through for the rest of our journey home.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Learning To Fly

To me, Self-Remembering is a 'grain of sand' to the 'beach' of a higher state. Moments of being present are a drop of the divinity bestowed upon us. Many people have come and gone out of our lives with hopes of soaring in states without wanting to put in the hard work of learning to fly.

~LFH

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The Process

The Process...

It is a time to confront and lay ourselves in a bare chested, more

vulnerable state. All of us began this work with a glimmering spark

of real identity smoldering within us. At certain moments it catches

light and fills us with enormous desire and proof of all the kisses we

have experienced with eternity. Almost as suddenly, the layers can

slam back around us making the darkness appear very real. This

is a pattern that continues throughout our work each has to recognize

it for himself, our mortal coil will continue to be our wrapping until the end.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Desire to Be Born

Desire awakening above everything else.
Desire to serve the gods.

Desire to be born.

~Mervyn Brady

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

The Natural Course...

Water heats gradually
and boils suddenly.

We cannot force the natural course of events; everything happens in its 'right' time. The process is gradual, and hence may appear slow to us as we are often too impatient with expectations, but the change takes place within an instant. Similarly, awakening can not be forced, but may be encouraged; just like a seed which sprouts naturally when the right conditions prevail.

~Arup Ganguly

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Embrace Love

Embrace Love...

St. John of the Cross described the soul as working in the cover of

darkness. Our Being, through experience, is the ladder to climb

out of ourselves into higher worlds. It is a delicious feeling to emerge

forth to embrace love while the machine stays in its place.

~C

Monday, May 14, 2012

The True Soul

The True Soul...

The true soul

does not rise and resurrect

any specific previous awakened teachers,

but resurrects ALL teachers

and becomes them ALL.

~Mervyn Brady

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Remorse, Self-Judgment and Conscience

Remorse, Self-Judgment and Conscience

As students we are trying to allow conscience to speak to us.
This means being willing to suffer its "gnawings" which are
not easy to bear. When it does get touched, it brings this
"heart rending" emotion; a sorrow that is positive and loving
and that demands action of some kind. It brings an energy that
can be a force for Work.

The energy of the feeling is quite different from self judgement
and the guilt that goes with it. Self judgement is basically negative
and leads one away from right work. It drains one. But remorse
fills one with a tender bitter sweet energy; a longing directed to
putting something right to the best of one's ability. The gnawings
go on until something is done, which is why people in general can't
bear the feeling and buffer it till it dies down. Even if one can't
immediately put something right through external actions, still the
deep feeling has great value in itself if experienced without negativity.

Mr Gurdjieff spoke often of remorse of conscience to his students and
of how essential the process is as a purifier of being. He said
the principle is the same on many levels--when something higher
touches something lower--energy is released-- and this is remorse.
It can be on a planetary scale such as when a higher world touches
a lower one or on another level a teacher being in contact with a
student in a certain way. Inside us its the soul or observing I seeing
and feeling the gap between what we are in that highest place and the
energy of the lower manifestations, when we have identified with them.

~JC

Saturday, May 12, 2012

A Simple Whisper...

A Simple Whisper From Our Soul....

In the last few days I was remembering and meditating on different and relevant situations in life. I asked myself, "What would be a gentle and effective way to protect and reflect the sacred Sanctuary of loving presence of our School, inside our meetings and also outside in the world in our daily lives?" It is such a delicate and important task for each one of us!

First of all we have to be a Living example, and we must be patient and humble to receive an answer from above with a pure and honest heart. In challenging or new times, maybe there is not an easy answer for our machines, but there is always a simple whisper from our souls to understand and to learn from every experience to follow the right Path.

~MD

Friday, May 11, 2012

A Constant Renewal

We should never forget how precious we are to one another; as long as we understand each other from the heart instead of the mind. I do believe that in "God's eye" and to be able to serve Him in the most profound way, we have to interact in this world from a spontaneous place away from reasoning and conclusions. In this space of a wholehearted moment, one verifies how there is no grasp or reliance on the past or the future. In other words, it becomes a constant renewal of a relationship. If we can continue to act that way, we will grow aligned in a destiny that will bring us close to God.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

We Mirror Each Other

We Mirror Each Other....

Let us remember that we mirror each other;

what we see in someone else is also present in us.

The more we are able to acknowledge and be lifted

by witnessing that which is higher and sacred in "the Other",

the closer we approach a state where we all evolve

...together....

~DR

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Re-MEMBER

RE-Member....

The first thing we have to do is Re-MEMBER it. Do you know what it means to Dis-MEMBER something? It is to chop it up. Then if you have to put up the bits back together, you have to Re-MEMBER it. So, we have to put ourselves back together; because something went wrong. Something went wrong. All religions and all ways talk about the Fall of Man, that man did something, and we have to fix it. If we don’t fix it, we don’t go back to wherever it is we came from.

So if a man starts to Re-MEMBER his soul, that means the soul is going to start thinking, that it is going to have I’s. And the Body can only have “I’s” about what it has encountered. No matter how good a Philosopher or man is, he can only have “I’s” about what he has learned, just like a computer. The computer can’t start producing thoughts; it can only reproduce what was put into it. So let us say we start talking about art, for example, ordinary art, human art, is a variation on theme. A man can only create what he has already seen. He can re-create it, with variations of it. Socrates said, "With man, there is no original thought,” Imagine that we are a bowl, and all the “I’s” are flying around, a man can only have an “I” that other men have, but if the soul awakens, the soul has access to soul I’s. It is kind of like the WEB on the Internet, for lack of a better description. It can now start.

~Mervyn Brady

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Your Destiny

Your Destiny...

Love nothing but that which comes to you

woven in the pattern of your destiny.

For what could more
aptly fit your needs?

~Marcus Aurelius

Monday, May 7, 2012

On Judgement

On Judgement....

The soul values, the machine judges. Judgement is one machine (mind/body) judging anothers' prison without seeing their own prison. We assume we are being judged and put judgement I's (thoughts) onto other people, which are imaginary. They may be thinking about breakfast. Judgement I's project how you, yourself, would respond. The worst judgement is to see a machine judging the soul of another person. Worse than that - the machine judging heaven.

Allow the soul time to absorb without interference from the brain (even if only for a few minutes). See the machine by seeing imaginary arguments with others.

~Mervyn Brady