The Academy of European Arts and Culture

Monday, August 25, 2014

Practicing Dying...

Death's greatest advantage over us is that we do not know

where he awaits us, we can take away some of his advantage

by awaiting him everywhere. Practicing dying frees us from

the slavery of this life.

~Mervyn Brady


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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Albuquerque, NM ~New Student Meeting

The Academy of European Arts and Culture

The Albuquerque, NM Center of the Academy of European Arts and Culture invites you attend a New Student Meeting.

Monday, August 25, 2014 ~ 7:30pm

The Whole Woman Center

418 Central Avenue (Central & Edith)

Albuquerque, NM

Learn about a teaching based on self-verification and practical objective results in life that goes beyond personal religion and faith. It is a path that helps bring one into the state of Presence and Love.

RSVP: https://academyus.wufoo.com/forms/sbjgl9b0hxepou/

866.312.7922 ext. 1

New Student Meeting ~ New York City

The Academy of European Arts and Culture

The New York Center of The Academy of European Arts and Culture invites you to attend an Open Meeting for New Students.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014 ~ 7:30pm

For Location Please Email: newyork@academyofeuropeanarts.com

“A man who wants to awaken must look for other people who also want to awake, and work together with them. The work of self-study can proceed only in properly organized groups. One man alone cannot see himself. But when a certain number of people unite together for this purpose they will even involuntarily help one another.”
— G. I. Gurdjieff —

Friday, August 22, 2014

Eternal Perspective...

At the moment of death the mind and all its delusions die, and in that void 
arrives the boundless nature of the soul and its eternal perspective.

~Mervyn Brady


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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Unprepared...

People die as unprepared for death as they are unprepared for life. They serve 
only the great machinery of nature and not the desires or wishes of the Gods.

~Mervyn Brady


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Monday, August 18, 2014

Patience...

We live in an era of very fast communication and want instant solutions to our problems. But sometimes this process of acceptance takes a while, so we embrace patience if we can, moving on in our lives, being present and allowing space and time for the understanding to come which enables us to accept that which is "hard to swallow".

~VP

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Worlds Open Up.....

We have so much knowledge and opinions
about things that it is sometimes very challenging
to truly allow higher impressions

to pierce us as deeply as they could.

So much of this process is learning to
"get out of our own way."

When we do,
the Worlds open up
to us.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Ode to Solitary Silence With Joy

Ode to Solitary Silence With Joy

Just as bees gather honey, so we collect from all that what happens

is sweetest -. and we build Him Even with the littlest, Most

insignificant thing, when it comes from love, we begin. We begin

with effort and the rest follows That effort, With silence or to

solitary joy, with everything we do alone without anyone to join or

help us, we begin Him who we will not live to see, any more than

Could our ancestors experience us. Yet They are in us, Those long

departed ones, They are in our inclinations, our moral burdens, our

pulsing blood, and in gestures That Arise from the depths of time.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Rome, December 23, 1903

Letters to a Young Poet

Friday, August 8, 2014

The Voice of the Heart...

Everyone can be happy, but some feel happy and some feel miserable. Constantly Those who want something will never feel happy. Misery is bound to Accompany wanting. Those who never want for themselves but for others, they can feel happy. Why? Because they want others to feel happy. God, Who is in everything and everyone, is deaf to the formal rituals, ceremonies, prayers, in mosques, churches, temples, but He hears the voice of the heart. When you help others, God knows instantly and is pleased. No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

~ Meher Baba

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

The Academy of European Arts and Culture ~ Chicago

invites you to attend an experiential workshop

Inner Silence-Inner Stillness

In the activity of life, can we be still?

Can we come to a place of inner silence?

What does this mean and why is it important

to our inner and outer lives?

How does one find such a place within?

Monday, August 11th ~ 8:00PM

Bon Bon Sandwiches LLC

2333 W. North Avenue

Chicago, IL

RSVP: chicago@academyofeuropeanarts.com

866.312.7922 Ext. 3

The Academy of European Arts and Culture,

Great Neck, Long Island

The Academy of European Arts and Culture, Great Neck,

invites you to attend an Open Meeting.

Saturday, August 9, 2014 ~ 4:30pm

Please Email for Location:

longisland@academyofeuropeanarts.com

Learn about a teaching based on self-verification

and practical objective results in life

that goes beyond personal religion and faith.

It is a path that helps bring one into

the state of

Presence and Love.

Enter the Temple...

"The ability for the Soul to enter the temple is bestowed on it by an Angel. One cannot enter these regions by the power of ones loins etc. It is a gift! Did you really think we could enter this temple willy-nilly? It is the reward for becoming free of nature, of creatures and their worlds. It is entering the world of the Soul.

~ Mervyn Brady

Friday, August 1, 2014

Love Does Not Alter...

Shakespeare tells us, "Love does not alter when alteration it finds." I think this is how we know when the soul is present because it loves unconditionally and does not change as circumstances change but stays true."

~VP