Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Stay Together




Stay Together... 

Stay together, friends.
Don't scatter and sleep.
Our friendship is made
of being awake.


Monday, July 30, 2012

An Oasis


An Oasis...

Through our meetings we must 
create an Oasis on Earth.
Through our meetings we can slowly learn 
to push back the lower energies which 
are constantly trying to consume us.


We are a School of Love. 
A School where a Student must learn 
to operate and function in 
World 12 (the world of the soul).
Meetings must become a place 
where the Soul will feel at home 
and will flourish towards 
its Birth.

Words...


Words...
 
I urge all of you to think before you speak.
 Words are the cruelest  infliction we impose on each other. 
Words can wound and deter,  they can elevate and destroy. 
Please treat each other as an important
 part of your possibilities.

Let us become known for our gentleness 
and energy wherever we go.

Love Song


 Love Song...

How can I keep my soul in me, so that
it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise
it high enough, past you, to other things?
I would like to shelter it, among remote
lost objects, in some dark and silent place
that doesn't resonate when your depths resound.
Yet everything that touches us, me and you,
takes us together like a violin's bow,
which draws *one* voice out of two separate strings.
Upon what instrument are we two spanned?
And what musician holds us in his hand?
Oh sweetest song.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke



Saturday, July 28, 2012

Everyday


Everyday...

Being here in this moment and connecting my heart and soul 
in resonance to all your hearts and souls, I feel so very grateful 
for this great Work. Everyday we are surrounded by life - our families, 
friends, nature, cups and plates, such ordinary things!  All here.  All 
asking to be seen; to be taken in to us and digested and understood, 
so we may break forth as a new refreshing rain giving our 
understandings to humanity as it stands in this moment of need.


Friday, July 27, 2012

Why We Study


Why We Study...

The Soul uses the Creation Blueprint of the visible worlds 
to investigate the Divine and invisible worlds.  
This is why we have to study this world
 and our own interior worlds.  
These are our only examples 
of the Laws of Creation 
in operation.


~Mervyn Brady

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Truly Love Others


Truly Love Others...

When one finds one's own soul, 
love in its highest form manifests.
 It is only when one has experienced this love, 
that one can truly love others.


Waiting For Us




Love is more interior to us, than we are to ourselves.  It's interior urgings work within us.  It is closer and more intimate to us than our own activity.  We have to remember it ... like our soul.  It is there waiting for us.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

New York City ~ Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales ~ Thursday, July 26, 2012



Understanding the Esoteric
Messages in Fairy Tales

Thursday, July 26, 2012 ~ 7:00pm

Rehearsal Studios
853 7th Avenue (between 54th & 55th Streets), Manhattan

$15 (advance RSVP) $20 at door

One of the oldest and most powerful tools of the human being to
convey a message, a lesson or even a warning, is the tale. We see
it in all civilizations and traditions throughout human history. Why
is it so powerful? Why is it used to deposit many secrets, passed from
generation to generation, waiting to be unveiled?


Do you have a favorite childhood story? Maybe you’re Pinocchio,
Cinderella or even the Little Mermaid. Why is there this union so
strong in your psyche with it? In this talk we will enter the enchanted 
forest and together discover some clues that may point the way
to cross, maybe take us to a gem mine or a glass fountain. What
is certain is that you will find some clues to awaken your
own Sleeping Beauty.



For More Information and To RSVP

Sacred Movements Workshop ~ Great Neck, Long Island ~ Sunday, July 29, 2012

Connecting to the Divine Energies Within Us 
Through Sacred Dance

Presented by International Speaker on Mysticism, 
Elias Menasse

Sunday, July 29th ~ 5pm

$15.00 (pre-paid), and $20.00 at the door. 

 Bonda Yoga Studio
4A Bond Street, Great Neck NY
(www.bondayoga.com)

To RSVP: 866.312.7922

There are many ways of introspection and inner work. Ancient 
teachings can be expressed through the language of the heart as 
art, through the intellect as literature and science, or through 
movement by using the main tool: our bodies.

Tools of Enlightenment called “Divided Attention Exercises" were 
designed by Schools of Consciousness whose focus was on inner 
development. The dances that were taught by these schools opened 
an internal space for reflection and meditation in motion.


Elias will provide the history of the Gurdjieff Sacred Dances. These 
dances were created by mystic and spiritual guru G.I. Gurdjieff, who 
combined Sufi and other traditions to explore the connection between 
 movement and spirituality. And, we will experience an introductory 
lesson in the art of using these sacred movements to create conscious 
harmony and inner peace.




Monday, July 23, 2012

Open Your Heart

 

 Open Your Heart....

For me, the phrase that keeps coming is … "Open Your Heart" ... 
Open Your Heart MORE.  This is where I feel in my work now is:
how to "attract" the higher, and as in the Rumi poem...

“The work of love is to create a window in the heart.”
“Delight yourself with what comes through that opening.”

 
 ... The rest is "unknown" to me ... 
but my heart says to keep "opening".


A Secret

 
A Secret...

Let me tell you a secret…
Everything that you have learned 
about which stops you from being conscious,
also stops you from 
Loving.


Sunday, July 22, 2012

Nothing But God









Meister Eckhart...

“The difficulty lies within the Man for whom God has not yet become everything… When you possess God no one can rob you or disturb your work because you think of nothing and you are looking for nothing but God”. 




Saturday, July 21, 2012

At Any Moment



At Any Moment...

Our inner world is here with us always.
It is a  matter  of opening it up to "life." 
Dividing one's  attention while doing anything 
brings one's inner world to whatever is
taking place at any moment.

  When I get a moment (glimpse) out  of "sleep," 
observing all the laws I am under, 
this feeds my desire to work. 
I realize  in this  moment I have a choice:
 "To B0 or Not To Be "

We must build our own heaven. 
No one can do 
an others work for
them. 


Friday, July 20, 2012

My Friend


My Friend...

My Friend,
when I look into your eyes,
God is looking back at me.
 
So if I want to repay God
for all of the blessings I have received,
I will give to you. 


Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Change...


Change...
 
 Look around you, if there was never any change you would be doomed to this picture of what you see. This is all you would see for an eternity. But, alas, change, the indicator of a higher presence; it changes our vistas and allows us to see the whole of creation!   


~ Mervyn Brady         






                                   






Negative Emotions...


 Negative Emotions...

Most of our negativity is predictable and often a person or a topic becomes a repeating source of negative emotions. We can anticipate a reoccurring negative response and avoid the negativity. Remember all negative emotions require your permission.

Remember negativity is contagious. It spreads like an infection. We can pass it to other students and weaken their first and second line of work. It is only when we begin to struggle with negativity in ourselves that we begin to minimize the effect of other’s negativity on us.


Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Nothing...


Nothing...

Nothing resists the will of the Gods,
Nothing opposes it...
Nor Can oppose it...
Love,

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Still


 Still...

Still - despite the juggle I call life -
the inner world is still -
in harmony with the outer...

How different the concept of time is when asleep...

How long is each moment - today when present
as the inner stops time still
drinking the nectar of each moment...

Observing...


The heart is pulsating louder,

feel life circulating with each pulse:
engaging in life rather than standing by...

Standby - is that the choice of flight through life while asleep -

suspended as a puppet to the external influences?

As I write I see a canvas filling up with colors, images,

possibilities...creativity/life/passion awakened...




Saturday, July 14, 2012

Beauty


Beauty...

The soul is Beauty;
That which Beauty was expressing.
 For those who can resonate to this beauty, 
who are fortunate to hear it or read it,  
you have been given 
a gift.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Today


Today... 
 
Today,
recognize one moment 
of exquisite beauty 
... notice it
.. rejoice in it 
... and give thanks.

The Compass..

 
The Compass.. 
 
I have verified that the direction we receive is not at our level. 
I have verified how the Gods show us the way
 if we have ears to hear and eyes to see. 
When I have had friction, 
I have found answers in silence. 
Remembering that behind the machine 
there is a soul,  has led to the generation
 of conscious harmony inside.
 I think the compass 
of our inner-world gets re-oriented 
from time to time and we have to follow 
that new direction.
 
 
~R 
 
 
 
 





 

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Chicago, IL ~ Monday, July 30, 2012


Food For the Soul...

An Evening of Conscious Music,

 Art and Poetry


Monday, July 30, 2012 ~ 7:30pm

2333 West North Avenue, Chicago, IL

For More Information:


Long Island, Saturday, July 28, 2012

Understanding the Esoteric Messages in Fairy Tales

Saturday, July 28, 2012 ~ 4:45pm

$15 (advance RSVP) $20 at the door

One of the oldest and most powerful tools of the human being to 
convey a message,a lesson or even a warning, is the tale. 
We see it in all civilizations and traditions throughout human history. 
Why is it so powerful? Why is it used to deposit many secrets, passed 
from generation to generation, waiting to be unveiled?

Do you have a favorite childhood story? Maybe you’re Pinocchio,
Cinderella or even the Little Mermaid. Why is there this union so 
strong in your psyche with it?

In this talk we will enter the enchanted forest and together discover 
some clues that may point the way to cross, maybe take us to a gem 
mine or a glass fountain. What is certain is that you will find some 
clues to awaken your own Sleeping Beauty.

For more information and location in
Middle Village, Queens, NY:
 
866.312.7922



Albuquerque, NM ~ Thursday, July 26, 2012

~Awakening Consciousness~

The Six Mysteries of Love

Thursday, July 26, 2012 ~ 7:30pm

The Whole Woman Center
418 Central Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM
 
The “Six Mysteries of Love”
describe what humans experience from the 
conception of a relationship to its end.
When we act from Presence and work to live in a
state of Conscious Harmony as awakened Souls,
the Mysteries teach us how we experience each relationship as a
State of Love that is Eternal

For More Information:

866.312.7922