I Have Realized ...

I have realized 

that the difference between the Academy 

and all other so-called “higher schools” 

is that to evolve, 

one doesn’t have to develop 

an understanding of the Fourth Way. 

In our school, 

being in the presence 

of another who is also present 

is also the way.

~O

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I Am Moved...

 

Marc Chagall

I am moved to share a little something 

about the nature of moving into a state of presence 

when I first joined the work 

and it ties in with duality. 

We came together, 

us students, 

to hear Mervyn talk about the work. 

We would gather, 

and as I understand it now, 

Mervyn was reading the room. 

How many different I's 

were needing to be attended to 

in his addressing of machines first. 

He gave our machines their space 

and in his voice, 

in his countenance, 

slowly he gave the okay to the machines 

in the undercurrent of lulling them to compliance 

and after so many words, whatever it took, 

in time – silence. 

He brought silence. 

It was not passive, nor active. 

It just was a lifting presence we all felt. 

I do not need to know everything. 

I know love. 

Maybe it is words are so imperfect yet we strive to use them. 

And I add to that, 

I do not need to know everything 

WHEN I know love.

~M

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He Who Is Not Contented...

 

Eduard Theodor Ritter von Grutzner

"He who is not contented with what he has, 

would not be contented 

with what he would like to have."

~Socrates

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The Most Valuable...

 

"The most valuable possession you can own 

is an open heart. 

The most powerful weapon 

you can be 

is an instrument of peace."

~Carlos Santana

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Jesus Went To The Desert ...

 

Jesus went to the desert 

for 40 days, 

a significant period in many ways. 

Rodney Collin defines the year 

in 40-day periods, 

as depicted by the enneagram, 

and the desert is a place of quiet. 

It can be like the way of the fakir. 

The machine is put in its place. 

It is humbled by realizing 

the power of nature. 

The machine is reminded 

of its weaknesses, 

of its ultimate reliance on water. 

The water of life must sustain the soul. 

With the machine humbled and quiet 

the soul can emerge with its full wings 

soaring above the desert floor. 

This is my aim here in the hot, 

stark desert.

~E

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I Have Been Reading ...

 

I have been reading recently some letters of Rilke, 

which are new to me. 

(He evidently wrote thousands of letters.) 

In one passage he talks about the value in having a friend 

who holds opposing views to our own, 

of treasuring this relationship. 

He says it is all too easy 

to think of those with opposing views 

as simply "other", or alien. 

But when we learn to embrace opposites 

in our closer relationships, 

we open up in ourselves as well, 

a "spaciousness" which can encompass 

the contradictions in ourselves. 

I think this is such a beautiful process, 

and I have been welcoming it more into my life. 

It opens up such new and unexpected possibilities.

~J

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Your Task...

 

Your task is not to seek for love, 

but merely to seek and find 

all the barriers within yourself 

that you have built against it.

~ Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

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The Gift of Presence

 

 Our mission is to bring the gift of "Presence" 

to as many people as possible and to deliver 

as many as possible from the lower worlds

 to a place where they can help in this great work.

~ Mervyn Brady

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Grief, Beauty, Longing, and Patience

William Blake

I have lately learned to embrace opposites 

and feel the way the heart can open so wide. 

Grief and Beauty, and now, Longing and Patience. 

It is deepening me in my Work, bringing me higher, 

diminishing the "importance" of so much I had valued. 

I am looking forward to where this journey leads.

~J

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How Much Eternity...

Be out of sync with your times for just one day, 

and you will see how much eternity 

you contain within you.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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I Am Moved To Share...

 

William Hallmark

I am moved to share a little something 

about the nature of moving into a state of presence 

when I first joined the work 

and it ties in with duality. 

We came together, 

us students, 

to hear Mervyn talk about the work. 

We would gather, 

and as I understand it now, 

Mervyn was reading the room. 

How many different I's 

were needing to be attended to 

in his addressing of machines first. 

He gave our machines their space and in his voice, 

in his countenance, 

slowly he gave the okay 

to the machines 

in the undercurrent of lulling them to compliance 

and after so many words, 

whatever it took, 

in time – silence. 

He brought silence. 

It was not passive, nor active. 

It just was a lifting presence we all felt. 

I do not need to know everything. 

I know love. 

Maybe it is words are so imperfect

 yet we strive to use them. 

And I add to that, 

I do not need to know everything 

WHEN I know love. 

May we be blessed. 

May we forever feel peace 

and never chase after it!!

~M

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