John Everett Millais
“With malice toward none,
with charity for all,
with firmness in the right
as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in...”
~
Monday, July 31, 2023
Thursday, July 27, 2023
In My Own Play...
D Shannon
In my own play
recently has come the experience
of the third class of negative emotion
that Ouspenksy outlines,
those that we cannot stop,
only observe when they come.
It's helping me to understand better
the second conscious shock -
of the transformation of negative emotions
because in these states the soul is aflame.
And any leak or egoism
will only serve to give expression to one's anguish.
And then down we go.
In these cases,
it's becoming apparent
that the only value in these states
is the ultimate valuation and trust in God
and all his servants.
For what else could our sufferings
be propelling us toward
if the first shock is maintained.
And so in ultimate friction and cleaved heart
the smile and comfort of our father
can overtake me
and these pains
can be transmuted into acceptance and grace,
lightening the load of our creator,
as Gurdjieff hints at in his writings.
~O
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
I Planted Wildflowers...
I planted wildflowers yesterday
around various places
in front of the house and corners.
Seeds can be like words -
they have to take root on prepared ground.
~C
Monday, July 24, 2023
When In A Lower State...
When in a lower state,
well, then there's the attraction,
pull of the lower forces.
When in a better place
(literally, a better place inside)
then there's the attraction of the finer Hydrogens.
Mysterious, yet very logical.
What do I value?
Life and its merry-go-round of nothingness
OR the work, the Higher, my path to becoming.
Trust in The Work is everything.
We have to be present to enter into it,
to have it enter into us.
It needs that finer,
empty space where I can stand in Attention.
~M
Friday, July 21, 2023
We Shall Not...
We shall not cease from exploration,
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
~T.S. Eliot
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Lately, Similar I's Have Been Circulating...
ER Hughes
Lately, similar I's have been circulating in my work -
about freedom from the perspective of the Soul.
Living from that place
is one of the later steps on the way.
There are many laws we'll never be free of
and many that we do have the capacity to avoid -
namely all of those
which govern the world exclusive to man.
Feminine Dominance, Inner Considering,
Mechanical Goodness, Unnecessary Suffering,
Identification, aimless imagination, and more.
My body never will stop producing I's,
giving them more merit than they are worth
is where we can plunge in Hydrogens.
On the way we are guaranteed phases of abundance
and phases of famine with regard to our Hydrogens.
Yet the good student stays to the middle,
each moment each breath
to ignore the Is inside of me that don't matter.
Presence breeds H12
and I'm beginning to see what our teacher understood
about the power of that Hydrogen -
it can be magnetic,
attracting more of the same from life
if I am able to get out of the way and value it.
~O
Monday, July 17, 2023
I Have Entered...
I have entered that state of discomfort,
when all the tasks disappear,
and suddenly there I am - quiet,
but wanting SO to fill the moment up with activity.
I guess that may be that state of nothingness
of which you and Bennett’s student speak.
Scary, but I am trying to hold with it,
and invite the higher in.
It helps!
It really changes the triad.
~J
Friday, July 14, 2023
The Other Day...
The other day I was driving to work.
I had an emotional fight happening in my chest/gut.
G was sitting next to me.
We saw a young man all of a sudden,
walking towards us, beaming,
holding a newborn child.
It hit my heart so suddenly -
the light on the father’s face.
G said, "Look, it is a newborn,
he has to support his head".
And I felt that presence uplift me,
of that importance of Supporting the Love,
the utter beauty and vulnerability of it.
~C
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Keep Your Face...
Keep your face
always towards the sunshine -
and the shadows
will fall behind you.
~Walt Whitman
Monday, July 10, 2023
I Have Observed...
Vincent Van Gogh
I have observed,
at least in our culture,
that we have little real suffering.
Most of it is unnecessary.
When real suffering enters,
it feels. different;
creates a shock of sorts.
When one is working on oneself,
the idea is to use this energy (suffering) to be present.
If you are identified,
you are not present.
~M
Friday, July 7, 2023
In This Landscape...
In this landscape of my life
which I "stand in"
(such a beautiful way of expressing it!),
I can also let go
so that I can fly into the miraculous with you
all balancing both sides.
I become whole again.
It seems too easy to ignore the one or the other,
and then I fragment.
But as with the woodwinds in the Ravel,
when I am fully HERE,
such riches can unfold.
And I cannot do this without you,
my sisters and brothers in the work.
~J
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
I Can Think...
I can think of this time as a big garden,
and draw a circle of Presence around myself
and go into that circle,
within it put all of my imaginary picture of things,
people, events, past, present, etc.
Look at it like a big painting,
or a garden I am designing and use,
"Intentional Imagination" to plan it -
be a conscious gardener of my own inner landscape.
I can see now that my inner world
has to stretch out into that time
and 'Ask for the gift",
for perhaps those beautiful
"WIND INSTRUMENTS" TO PLAY.
Then maybe Self-remembering
can be there in the imagined future,
like the soul writing some sheet music.
It seems more kind and reasonable
than being in imagination about it all.
~C
Monday, July 3, 2023
Demand Not...
Marie Spartali Spillman
“Demand not that things happen as you wish,
but wish them to happen as they do,
and you will go on well.”
~Epictetus
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