Great Minds...

 

Edward Burne-Jones

“Great minds discuss ideas. 

Average minds discuss events. 

Small minds discuss people.” 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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Appreciation...

 

Arvin Dubey

Appreciation is a wonderful thing:

It makes what is excellent in others

belong to us as well.

~Voltaire

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What A Gentle Power...

 

What a gentle power is transformation! 

Our teacher embodies the principle, 

patience = love. 

We know and he showed us how his heart's wisdom 

allowed for something in our being 

to take years to transform.

~M

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Desire And Longing...

Desire and longing 

can be so much stronger than our BEING at times, 

but just that friction between what we seek 

and what we can DO, 

can be the fire that we need 

to keep us moving ahead, I think. 

I saw a friend last night 

who often is in a dark place, 

despite her strong magnetic center 

and gorgeous creative energy. 

The last time I had been with her, 

despite my intention to help lift her energy,

I had instead 

been dragged down into lower worlds. 

It was such a classic example 

of the lower consuming the higher. 

It was daunting to have experienced this, 

but it helped me going into our dinner last night. 

But this time, 

I kept it simple. 

Instead of thinking I would "help her out," 

I instead just focused on keeping my own energy high, 

and the entire triad changed. 

She actually "saw" that energy 

and was drawn to it. 

She described it and was able to use it. 

She was able to transform her OWN state.

And I learned a powerful lesson about humility, 

and also the preciousness of our internal energies. 

So often I think I can DO, 

when in actuality the lesson is just to BE.

~J

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Ordinarily Impressions ...

Ordinarily impressions 

are received in a mechanical way. 

They are received by our personality, 

which reacts with automatic thoughts and feelings 

that depend on its conditioning. 

We do not assimilate impres­sions 

because personality itself cannot be alive— 

it is dead. 

In order to be assimilated and transformed, 

impressions have to be received by essence. 

This requires a conscious effort 

at the moment of the impres­sion. 

And it requires a definite feeling, 

a feeling of love for being, 

for being present. 

We must respond to impressions 

no longer from the vantage point of personality 

but from love for being present. 

This will transform our whole way of thinking and feeling.

~Jeanne De Slazmann, The Reality of Being

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Mervyn Said...

Evelyn De Morgan

Mervyn said, 

for the soul to be pierced by an impression, 

the impression must go right from Do to Do. 

So in order to stand in front of and be pierced by it, 

first the mi-fa interval must be surpassed 

by dividing our attention 

and then we go through so la to the si do interval. 

He said there is only one thing 

that can surpass those intervals 

to pierce our souls 

and that is love.

~E

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We Must Continue...

 

We must continue to do the Work 

because there is no alternative 

to find and serve God. 

As you know,

it is at times very difficult, 

but we have hope; 

this hope that ultimately gives us the will to continue. 

This is what we need on this trail 

that at times is full of tears, 

at times is a lonely way that, 

but if we can bring one soul, 

one student, 

one step closer to the light of God, 

all this loneliness and perhaps grief is justified.

~A

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When Life Itself Seems Lunatic...

Yoel Sevi

"When life itself seems lunatic,

who knows where madness lies?

Perhaps to be too practical is madness. 

To surrender dreams - this may be madness.

Too much sanity may be madness -

and the maddest of all:

to see life as it is,

and not as it should be!"

~Miguel de Cervantes Saaverdra, Don Quixote

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As The World...

 

Charles William Mitchell

As the world faces these dark times of destruction, 

I am reminded of the caterpillar, 

living its life through so many stages, 

finally ready to hang upside down 

and be utterly reduced to nothing 

but imaginal cells (goo). 

Faith in the six processes 

that crime must occur before healing 

and perhaps the great gift of regeneration 

is that we humbling our vessel 

to allow the Gods to reduce us to nothing 

so that we may be remade? 

Rodney speaks of this often. 

I experience it again and again, 

the false being stripped away, 

being laid bare, 

and then rebuilding with worn out tools. 

So thankful for this gift of being human, 

with a Soul.

~E

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A Student Shared Something ...

Amy Gibson

A student shared something 

 at a meeting. 

She was thinking of how 

when the caterpillar 

has hibernated into the chrysalis, 

it must be uncomfortable! 

That went right into me. 

Yes, it IS uncomfortable. 

To just be and do the INNER work. 

Often I'm not sure of what this entails. 

So, I hold the higher & the lower 

and it feels like I'm the middle. 

It's uncomfortable. 

BUT, if I can persist with patience 

& a determination, 

there is a breakthrough. 

It's as if I'm percolating inside and holding it, 

trusting in this process 

that I don't fully understand. 

So mysterious. 

Words cannot do justice to this wonder. 

~M

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Dare To Declare...

Emily Olson

Dare to declare who you are.

It is not far from the shores of silence

to the boundaries of speech.

The path is not long, 

but the way is deep.

You must not only walk there,

you must be prepared to leap.

~Hildegard Von Bingen

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