This Love that visits is the highest teacher and it is quite simple.
~C
Friday, February 27, 2015
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Smelling the Roses by Mervyn J. Brady
Purchase Today!
"Smelling the Roses: Memoir of an Irish Philosopher", by Mervyn Brady, is the story of a spiritual teacher's childhood journey, told in his own humorous and eloquent words, with insightful commentary by those who loved him. By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, intellectual and inspiring, Mervyn Brady's story celebrates the life and legacy of a man who started out a mischievous boy running with a scrappy gang of urchins on the streets of Dublin and ended up a beloved philosopher leading a community of spiritual seekers from the U.S., Mexico, the U.K., Australia and South Africa.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Acceptance
For us it is established
that without doubt that all sincere appeal for help
must receive an answer.
But its form
is always unexpected.
~Rodney Collin
~Rodney Collin
Monday, February 23rd - Albuquerque, NM
The Academy of European Arts and Culture, Albuquerque
The Academy of European Arts and Culture, Albuquerque invites you to attend an Open Meeting.
Monday, February 23, 2015 ~ 7:30pm
The Whole Woman Center
418 Central Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM
418 Central Ave SE, 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.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Conscious Intention
Conscious intention has an active feel to it and I have verified
that
when one's heart really intends, with love, then anything can be done.
~P
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Los Angeles - Sunday, February 22, 2015 - A New Way to Look at Art
The Los Angeles Center of the Academy of European Arts and Culture invites you to attend:
A New Way Of Looking At Art – A Guided Visit to The Getty Center.
Sunday, February 22, 2015 ~ 2:00 PM – 3:30pm
The Getty Center Museum of Art
1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049
1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049
$15 (Parking)
Admission is Free.
Join us to experience a New Way Of Looking At Art, more deeply, more intentionally. Conscious works of art can bridge the gap between the soul of the artist and the person observing the artwork, speaking directly to our inner worlds. We will view a few select paintings in the Getty Center, and learn skills to unlock the deeper meanings that these artists have conveyed through the beauty of their work.
RSVP Today!
Rockland County, NY - New Student Meeting ~ Sunday, February 22, 2015
New Student Meeting for the Academy of European Arts and Culture, Rockland
The Academy of European Arts and Culture, Rockland invites you to attend an Open Meeting.
Sunday, February 22, 2015 ~ 3:00pm
Peace Forest Sanctuary
8 Amber Ridge Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY
8 Amber Ridge Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY
What does it take to become present or have the soul awake, and what keeps us asleep? The Esoteric School – The Academy of European Art’s and Culture, invites you to an introductory meeting . Come learn about this Esoteric School and the Soul.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
The Pure Love.....
The pure love that can be shared between beings of all kinds emerges when mechanics are stilled, thoughts are silenced and the inner world shines … The serenity of nature reconnects my Soul to the serenity of God and even in the tempest of the world outside, hydrogens and peace somehow grace my heart.
~E
Food For the Soul...
There is eternity in beauty,
it is the food for the soul,
it brings us to the gods,
it brings the gods to us.
Monday, February 16, 2015
Chicago, IL ~Monday, February 16, 2015 ~ Care of the Soul
The Academy of European Arts, Chicago, invites to attend:
Care of the Soul
Monday, February 16, 2015 ~ 7:30pm
Tony Robinson Gallery
2416 W North Ave.
Chicago, IL
Writers, philosophers,and theologians speak of the soul as if people are already in possession of one. This workshop will discuss and explore the need for the nourishment and growth of one's soul. Please join us for this important topic.
Offered at No Charge!
To RSVP: http://buff.ly/17BxH3k
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Voice of the Heart
John Everett Millais
God, Who is in everything and everyone, is deaf to 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
Friday, February 13, 2015
Prayer
John Dickson Batten
"I think prayer, or some sort of appeal from the whole
heart to a force outside our circle of life which alone can alter things
there, is the only possibility in certain insoluble
circumstances. But surely we must cry to be shown the way out, to be shown
the unseen ladder out of the impasse, and be very ready to accept 'whatever' is
shown. Then if some new idea, some new light comes into one's heart --- as
it will --- one must be prepared to obey courageously. If one does
so, one will be led out of the maze.”
~Rodney Collin
The Surprise of Love....
The surprising element of Love is how it surprises, opens Joy, and shines its light brightly onto others too, without asking for anything back.
~C
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
The Fountain of Attention by Mervyn Brady
Mervyn Brady
(February 11, 1948-April 27, 2006)
Happy Birthday, Mervyn!
The Fountain of Attention
the beginning and end of all religion,
the goal of all philosophy,
the cure of all psychology,
the universal equaliser of theories of everything,
the origin of joy and immortality,
the source of all true art, poetry, music and paradox,
the only spiritual act in the universe.
what ascetics practise as sacrifice,
yogis as concentration,
Sufis and saints as internal prayer,
what artists sense when they transcend their technique and create.
Aladdin's lamp, the fountain of youth, the pearl of great price, the
buried treasure of all myth and fable,
the Golden Mean.
Moksha, Nirvana, the Kingdom of Heaven,
Dadirri - the sound of deep calling to deep.
philosophy purged of language,
Being simplified,
Simplicity charged with meaning.
the liberation of attention into the living moment.
the breaking of the spell,
the erasure of vital boundaries, over and over, forever.
the knife that cuts through everything to the meaning of existence.
It is the only quest in the universe -
To Be or not to Be.
just now,
one long poem of presence,
the pure art of perfect attention.
a bloodless coup of Being,
the discipline of freedom,
the freedom of discipline.
the lifting of self out of the current of dreams,
being free to see.
the attempt to penetrate the present,
absorb its contents,
It is consciousness loving you into existence.
Monday, February 9, 2015
Jacob and the Angel
The picture relates to a story in the old testament when "Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of day".
Jacob wrestles with his opponent all day and night until the break of dawn.
At this point the opponent reveals himself as an Angel and gives Jacob a blessing.
What this means in our language is that Jacob was a man who worked on himself over a period of time. He struggles to remember himself.
He is in the desert. A place that is neither home nor solace. We call it life.
His opponent is his own machine and its mechanics.
The breaking of dawn implies the birth of higher centers.
This is when his opponent reveals itself as an Angel.
In the picture we see Jacob on the edge of a precipice.
He struggles to awaken but could easily slip off the path.
Even though he has a weapon or staff he has to use his bare hands or his own 'understanding'.
On the bottom left hand side there are cacti. If he falls onto these he will be covered in needles.
The needles imply the various troubles, woes and I's of the lower centres.
The Angel is higher than Jacob. Jacob has lost the fight.
The Angel (his higher emotional centre) is holding him true and present.
Self remembering is ALWAYS the higher right.
~O
Friday, February 6, 2015
Love Itself...
The Soul begins this work by receiving or taking in impressions;
by opening our eyes to the reality and truth of things.The space
formed between ourselves and the image is where the Soul
should live.
To be awake is knowing that this space exists, it completes us.
When the Soul has no images to digest, the Divine enters and
we begin to digest Love itself. Jesus explained this as the inner
becoming the outer; we replace the identity of our I's and our
personality by continually forming a space for the Soul to be and
Love to enter our inner world.
~C
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