Don’t Only Practice Your Art...

“Don’t only practice your art, 

but force your way into its secrets, 

for it and knowledge 

can raise men to the divine.” 

~Ludwig van Beethoven

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If The Aim Is To Serve...

Gabriele Munter

If the aim is to serve ‘that which is higher’ 

and by being good shepherds 

be in service to others on a more conscious level, 

we can realize the I’s ever changing are not real 

and ‘do our duty’ so as to say. 

I remember being with Mervyn 

and he had set up a schedule 

of lots of third forces to get him places, 

for instance, driving from Queretaro to Mexico City for meetings, 

staying all day and driving back in the evening. 

We would look at each other 

and with laughter say ‘lets do it anyway!’ 

Then jump into his Ford Explorer 

and on the road again to Mexico City. 

Golden beautiful memories of conscious actions 

overcoming the machine with him. 

As John M was writing 

it takes a little courage really to write from our inner self 

because we expose our mechanics through writing, 

our features and so on. 

The instinctive wishes to remain hidden 

and our false personality has an image of itself 

that it wishes to maintain, 

but 'give the soul a pen 

and it will write' said Mervyn to me, 

and once having writ it moves on. 

So courage friends! 

Leave inner considering behind and write to us!

~M

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It Takes Courage...

It takes courage to trust the real "I's" 
and even more so to express them. 
Because we come up against 
our own buffers and limitations, 
and inner considering, as well as those of the people around us, 
even within our School. 
But this is the task and what was cultivated by Mervyn 
and the many Conscious Beings both on and not on our list. 
I pray for that courage for all of us.

~J

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So Much Inspiration...

So much inspiration when we ask for it, 

with intention and true feeling. 

How could the seed not feel the warmth of the Sun 

even before it knows of its brilliant brightness? 

This is how sensitive we must become. 

Not every thought (like every sperm) 

will become a reality. 

I Love this school 

as it gives such an opportunity to explore 

through art and poetry.

To find meaning and real substance 

in the things of this world.

~C

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He Who Works...

Kehinde Wiley

“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.” 
~ Saint Francis of Assisi

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I Know Mervyn...

Thomas Hart Benton

I know Mervyn felt this compassion 

and deep desire for others, 

to reach them in their prisons. 

Many poets and conscious beings 

use the imagery of confinement 

to describe part of the journey, 

and I feel it is powerful and relevant especially now. 

William Blake, as he wandered the streets of London 

saw in people’s expressions, 

“The Mind forged manacles”, also. 

So powerful a description for the prison of sleep 

and unawareness of the mind 

and how it can twist and devise our true reality 

and “Birthright”. 

It is after all our true Birthright to be “Awake” 

to taste presence, 

be in state of what work calls “Man number five”. 

We must keep reminding everyone, 

no matter how - 

can be with a silent smile, 

an intention we project - 

that there is hope to escape the prison. 

~C

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I Have Heard...

I have heard someone describe

 deep appreciation of trees, birds etc.

That the trees are simply still and quiet, 

this is their essence. 

When a person comes 

and deeply appreciates the beauty and essence 

of the tree that somehow it reflects back to the tree 

and in some subtle way 

the tree becomes aware of its own divine beauty.

~J

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Many Times...

Chris Cook

Many times this week in meetings 

students have spoken about “Connectiveness”. 

I heard something this week, 

“The Spirit is not in the body, 

the body is in the Spirit.” 

Somehow it spoke to me, 

how in sleep we need to wake something 

to actually BE part of this Web of Spirit, 

to be truly alive in it. 

~C

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The Whole Thing...

William Adolphe Bouguereau

"The whole thing, 

the most difficult thing, 

is to wake the heart. 

Somehow one has to learn 

to be able to live in the heart, 

to judge from the heart, 

as ordinarily we live in mechanical mind 

and judge from that. 

It is shifting the centre of attention in oneself. 

For the movements of the heart 

are so quick 

that only if one can learn 

to live there for some time, 

is it possible to catch them 

as they pass and obey them. 

This also means 

that we have to learn to feed the heart, 

taking emotional impressions directly there; 

just as we now take knowledge 

directly into the mind."

~Rodney Collin - Theory of Conscious Harmony

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I Visited The Basilica Assisi...

I visited the Basilica Assisi in Italy 

I saw some of these paintings. 

I hadn’t realized 

that they existed on the walls of this beautiful church 

honoring and representing St Francis’ conscious journey. 

Each moment we have 

is like a painting coming into being 

in the walls of our house.

There are many examples throughout the world, 

(Maps) as Mervyn used to call them - 

Where we can learn and follow these journeys. 

The Art and being of the Conscious souls 

bring alive “The Work”, 

showing us a variety 

that can never be extinguished. 

~C

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