When You Do A Thing...

 

“When you do a thing, 

do it with your whole self. 

One thing at a time. 

Now I sit here and I eat. 

For me nothing exists in this world 

except this food, this table. 

I eat with whole attention. 

So you must do - in everything... 

To be able to do one thing at a time... 

this is the property of Man, 

not man in quotation marks.”

Gurdjieff

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My Moving Center ...

 

My moving center needs to make way for the soul's pace, 

the soul's direction, 

the heart's connections more. 

Meetings are so good for this. 

If the rest of my day could continue in this way, ahhh.

~J

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Daniel Was Cast...

Daniel was cast into the Lion’s Den 

and it was sealed overnight.  

Here Rubens shows us the moment 

when the stone was pulled back 

by his friend the next morning.  

The beast’s eyes are dazzled by the light 

and we see Daniel 

giving thanks to God for his deliverance. 

In modern times 

I am sure you all at various times 

have had your Soul or inner world 

cast into the Pit, and you have survived.  

Sometimes I feel like this 

but have learned 

to make my Soul invisible to beasts.  

I suggest you do the same.

~Mervyn

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It Is My Hope...

 

It is my hope 

that having transmitted many painting observations to you 

over the years that they created an excitement, 

an eagerness for you to look and 'see' 

and that the longer you remain in that state 

the more you will express yourself 

to the direct picture 

and the more likely it is to leave a permanent trace - 

a pathway that will make it easier for you 

to 'see' and feel pictures to come. 

Thus eventually you will be capable 

of appreciating a work of art with the certainty 

of a sensation of hot and cold.  

We can digest and learn 

from the best our European artistic legacy has left us, 

and we can also try 

to make ourselves works of art 

that gives us as spectators of our own selves 

the same joy in beauty and inspiration 

that external works of art can give us now. 

~Mervyn Brady

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William Stott

I have recently verified that aim is like a northern star

it gives me focus,

meaning and holds the light

in stormy seas and dark nights..

Aim with desire creates such a strong triad,

helps us jump intervals,

heal frictions,

stay in love and welcome life at another level..

The aim in relationships

will set the course of that relationship,

an aim that is powerful and locked in

can help the soul experience more expression of itself

through the machine and awakenings of the heart.

The soul yearns for conscious aim,

the machine is in constant need of it. 

 ~Naz McSweeney 

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The Work...

The Work is something living in our hearts and minds. 

Follow the path, 

see what changes take place within you, 

and what light begins to dawn in you.

~Maurice Nicoll

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When You Make...

                                                                                           

           

 

When you make the two One,

The inner as the outer

And the outer as the inner

And the above as the below

So that you will make the Male and Female as a single One

In order that the Male is not made Male

And the Female is not made Female

When you make eyes into an eye

And a hand into a hand

And a foot into a foot

And even an image into an image

Then you shall enter the Kingdom.

~Passage from The Gospel of Thomas

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I Was Thinking...

Marc Chagall

I was thinking about the difference 

between conscious acts 

and doing what is merely mechanical, 

which can take so many myriad forms 

in any given moment. 

Setting aside mechanical goodness, 

and looking for openings 

for conscious acts of kindness and genuine love

 is a perfect example. 

I like that rather than focusing directly on raising our level of being, 

we go ahead instead and act "as if" 

we were already on a higher plane 

and with each act we draw nearer 

to becoming a permanent actor in this cosmic play.

~J

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In One Way...

 

Edward Burne-Jones

In one way in our work 

we deconstruct to reconstruct 

to make new beginnings. 

We make new beginnings many times 

sometimes one layer of the onion comes away 

and sometimes many all at one time 

which leaves us feeling vulnerable and raw 

and then sometimes we retire to cocoon a little 

while we get used to the new again. 

Beginnings are important 

because we look again fresh and strong 

at the world with different perceptions.

~M 

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