Mervyn Said...

 

William Blake

Mervyn said something to the effect 

that often we think it is the soul who is speaking. 

But it’s really the creature in us 

and we don’t even know it. 

I have verified this many times with myself, 

even the nice creature. 

Because of this I’m sitting here right now, 

seeing my creature with its many I’d 

and just holding it 

with some divided attention when I remember. 

It is really a moment to moment, 

second to second thing. 

So grateful because it is helping me separate a little. 

The creature is here 

and it seems like an important warning.

~S

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If We Know...

 

Pooja Bodas

If we know about our soul 

and listen to her inner dictates, 

we can hear the voice of divinity 

and learn to listen to the laws of our inner being 

through the virtues of our soul. 

We spoke about humanity evolving 

and looking deeper into these stories, 

with the history of our souls 

knowing more is revealed to each generation. 

We are in the awakening process 

on a much bigger scale than ever.

~F

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Happy The Man...

 

Christina Carmel 

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”

~Horace

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Maurice Nicoll Would Say...

 

Maurice Nicoll would say 

that we need to become aware 

that there is another world. 

For me 

that came as a deep sense of there being 

a missing aspect in my life, 

that I should be able to go higher, 

but I could not find the way. 

When I found Mervyn, this school, you all, 

this possibility of a higher life opened up for me. 

I SAW it in the energy around me in the school. 

But my ego had to be wrestled to the ground, 

so to speak, in order to free me to soar.

~J

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The Price of Presence

The Virgin from The Virgin and Child with 

Saint John and an Angel - Sandro Boticelli

Recently, in a morning meeting, I shared a memory of Mervyn:

He was at home, surrounded by loved ones 

who were having a disagreeable discussion. 

I can’t remember the topic. 

But the whole time, he was there, 

listening and lightly engaging in the conversation.

When we left, he turned to me and said:

“Do you think I wanted to be present 

in the middle of that conversation? 

I did not. But I had to. 

It’s the price to pay for our soul. 

We can’t pick and choose our moments of presence.”

Remember Yourself Always.

~T

Lost In Awe...

 

Jane Goodall 

1934-2025

“Lost in awe at the beauty around me, 

I must have slipped into a state of heightened awareness. 

It is hard – impossible really – 

to put into words the moment of truth 

that suddenly came upon me then. 

Even the mystics 

are unable to describe their brief flashes of spiritual ecstasy. 

It seemed to me, 

as I struggled afterward to recall the experience, 

the self was utterly absent: 

I and the chimpanzees, 

the earth and trees and air, 

seemed to merge, 

to become one with the spirit power of life itself. 

The air was filled with a feathered symphony, 

the evensong of birds. 

I heard new frequencies in their music 

and also in singing insects’ voices – 

notes so high and sweet, I was amazed. 

Never had I been so intensely aware of the shape, 

the color of the individual leaves, 

the varied patterns of the veins that made each one unique. 

Scents were clear as well, 

easily identifiable: fermenting, overripe fruit; 

waterlogged earth; cold, wet bark; 

the damp odor of chimpanzee hair, and yes, my own too. 

And the aromatic scent of young, 

crushed leaves was almost overpowering.

That afternoon, 

it had been as though an unseen hand 

had drawn back a curtain and, 

for the briefest moment, I had seen through such a window. 

In a flash of “outsight” 

I had known timelessness and quiet ecstasy, 

sensed a truth of which mainstream science 

is merely a small fraction. 

And I knew that the revelation 

would be with me for the rest of my life, 

imperfectly remembered yet always within. 

A source of strength on which 

I could draw when life seemed harsh or cruel or desperate.”

~ Jane Goodall

"Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey"

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One with God

Gemini AI Generated Image

The other morning in our mystical meeting, 

Stephanie played the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic.

While I was listening to it, I was very moved 

and had a very strong realization.

Being Jewish, I have been reciting the 

SHEMA every day for most of my life.

Sh’ma Yisre’eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.

The meaning is:

"Hear, Oh Israel, the Lord our God the Lord is One."

I have always interpreted it that we should all listen 

and know that there is one God."

But listening to the song of the Lord’s Prayer, 

it entered me and for the first time I had a 

much deeper understanding. 

It was for me to hear that it wasn’t that there was one 

God but that I was to listen and be one with God.

Listen to the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic on Spotify

~P

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