Remember...

 

“Remember that sometimes 

not getting what you want 

is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

~Dalai Lama XIV

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During This Process...

During this process 

of keeping my intention on this topic, 

reading, remembering my own experience, 

listening to Mervyn, 

the entire review and subsequent discovery 

showed me in practice 

that the level of these ideas forces us into our kings. 

Like we have to activate the highest within us 

to begin to be able to receive. 

My inner world has gotten more in the last day 

than perhaps the last week 

from these efforts and the work is so big 

that there are so many different points to aim at. 

States have happened as well 

and it reminds me 

of the diagram of the chain of beings 

that looks like a snake ascending. 

That we our body is food for the earth 

and there is a part of us that yields up 

as food for the beings that represent H12. 

To make ourselves palatable to feed and receive 

it take immense aspiration. 

All-consuming if you would, 

on one side, or the other. 

‘A’ influence or ‘C’.

~O

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Understanding...

 

Ilse Kleyn

Understanding 

is a combined function of all centres. 

Each centre separately can only know; 

when they combine all their knowledge, 

this gives understanding. 

To understand something 

one needs at least three centres. 

Right understanding requires a right attitude.

~P.D. Ouspensky, The Fourth Way

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Accepting Our Type

Rembrandt - A Woman in Bed

"False personality does not want you to be in essence.

It is dissatisfied with who you are.

Every phenomenon is a stick, 

it has a good end and a bad end.

What we tend to look at is only the bad end.

With that bad end of the stick, is the impulse 

to work against what we are.

At some time you have to accept the machine 

that you are in. This is a big pill to swallow.

When you learn your type you can minimize 

the denying force your machine brings you. 

For example, other types of machines. 

A passive type may have to stand up to an active type.

One has to keep experimenting to practice your art.

The higher you go the more you have to lose.

You have to learn about body types 

so that the body can talk to the soul — 

not the other way around.

If you know types you can be the master of any situation.

Even if you lose you can be the master 

by learning from your loss."

Mervyn, April 21st, 1998

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Understanding...

 

AI generated 

Understanding is not only a function of effort 

both to digest knowledge 

and strive to realize its experience, 

it is also a function of time. 

The understanding of a conscious teacher 

cannot be transmitted in full to anyone directly. 

No one would understand. 

Everything in the work is so intimately personal 

and comes from our own direction and undertaking, 

our own desire to realize each stage of the work.

~O

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The Cupola...

 

The Cupola is a beautiful structure 

and has the opening directly in the middle of it, 

where the "real I" CAN LOOK. 

Years ago, in Mexico 

I was in a monastery, 

and there was a room with a cupola 

and below it a coffin 

where the monks were laid out at their funeral. 

The realisation was, for me at that time, 

that the soul escaped and saw the entire gardens 

and place where it had lived. 

That this room 

was an objective space for it to see in the moment 

of release after the body had died, 

everything it had lived in that space of the monastery, 

all the rose gardens 

and surrounding areas of the monastery from a higher place.

~C

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Faith

AI Gemini Generated Image

"If the soul is all we have, maybe faith is its fuel...

a quiet trust in the Divine and the Unknown." 

~C

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It Is Easy...

 

It is easy to sit up and take notice,

What is difficult 

is getting up and taking action.

~Honore de Balzac

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I Have Been Digging...

I have been digging in the dirt 

looking for a real, nasty root 

from a thorny vine that went unnoticed 

and unaddressed for years. 

The vine tangles between the branches 

of a thick bushy plant 

and was hard to get to. 

With patience and physical labor, 

I did not lose energy over the challenge. 

It was a natural unfolding 

of removing bits and pieces in the way. 

I see how deeply and intertwined 

things can feel too much of a challenge. 

At first, I could not see clearly 

what was going on in the mess of things 

hiding my vision to see. 

I had to twist and turn my body 

into many different angles. 

This I verified is a way forward for me.

~M

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Rumpelstiltskin: Sharing our Inner World

Rumplestiltskin by Anne Anderson (1935)

Recently, a student shared a beautiful interpretation 

of the story of Rumpelstiltskin in a global meeting. 

The realization was this: 

Rumpelstiltskin possessed knowledge that he did not want to share. 

Yet, when that knowledge was finally brought to light, 

it helped the miller's daughter convert ordinary straw into gold. 

In the language of the Work, by sharing the realizations 

of our inner world, we provide the 'shock' others need to help 

them transform the coarse straw of their daily impressions 

into the gold of higher consciousness.

The story also serves as a stark warning about hoarding knowledge. 

Rumpelstiltskin represents the danger of not 'eliminating' 

or sharing our inner work. When his secret is finally named, 

his resistance causes him to violently split in two. 

This is what happens to a machine that refuses to share its light: 

we become divided. One half attempts to serve the Work, 

while the isolated, mechanical half tears the inner world apart.

~T

Start By Doing...

 

“Start by doing what is necessary, 

then what is possible, 

and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

~ St. Francis Of Assisi

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The Feeling...

 

Ronit Ashkenazi

The feeling, desire, willingness, courage, 

all need to work together to fill that moment 

when laziness of the machine is about me. 

Shakespeare pointed us in the direction 

of using perhaps some wit - 

and similar to question, 

I can think of it as to play with the I's. 

For instance: This ‘I’ feels real- why? 

It has a very certain point of view. 

Where did that come from? 

Investigate and it falls away quickly 

or if not quickly, 

more questions are helpful 

to see if it is a rooted I 

and where the root began.

~M

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The Change is In You

AI Gemini Generated Image

"There is no Change in God.

The Change is in you.

Plead to God. 

Wake up at the middle of the night.

Get up and prostrate yourself twice.

Need, need, need!

Put your face on the ground,

and rain down tears;

'Lord, if you don't want the Prophets and

Saints to remain like a knocker on the door,

now that you have shown me 

the great man [Mervyn Brady],

Open up my yes through him.'

Happy is he who sees me [God],

and happy is he who sees 

him who has seem me."

~Sham Tabrizi 

You Were Talking...

 

You were talking about “wearing” this string of pearls, 

rather than keeping them in a box. 

How these realizations or pearls of wisdom 

we have verified need to be kept close to our heart and head, 

so that we don't have to search for them 

when we need them. 

(Or this is what I took from your comments.) 

I think this is related to the idea of "having a longer thought." 

Staying with our realizations and verifications 

until they have gone really deeply inside, 

perhaps as part of revealing 

who we are becoming in a very real way. 

Then of course 

they become part of our very being, 

and we can draw upon them 

in a natural way when we need them. 

I think part of Mervyn's fear 

that we might lose the Work 

was about this. 

It is not sufficient for the head 

to make an important connection. 

I must also bring it into all my centers, 

explore it, see how it manifests, 

and make it truly and completely my own. 

Then it will be mine 

and it will inform who I am becoming in the richest sense.

~J

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If You Think...

 

AI Generated 

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, 

try sleeping with a mosquito.” 

~Dalai Lama XIV

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Little Alchemists

 

AI Gemini Generated Image

In a recent meeting, two students shared 

profound examples of transforming life 

friction into a higher offering. 

One student utilized Sensing to anchor 

her physical carriage, allowing the friction 

to pass through her without creating a leak. 

The other rushed to her piano, utilizing the 

Moving Center to digest the energy of the moment, 

sensing the keys beneath her fingertips to stay present. 

Regardless of the method, this transformation 

is an absolute necessity in our system. 

It is the process of 'refining Hydrogens', 

transforming the raw friction of life into 

the high-octane food that feeds the soul.

~T

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You Were Talking...

 

You were talking about 

“wearing” this string of pearls, 

rather than keeping them in a box. 

How these realizations or pearls of wisdom 

we have verified 

need to be kept close to our heart and head, 

so that we don't have to search for them 

when we need them. 

(Or this is what I took from your comments.) 

I think this is related to the idea 

of "having a longer thought." 

Staying with our realizations and verifications 

until they have gone really deeply inside, 

perhaps as part of revealing 

who we are becoming in a very real way. 

Then of course they become part of our very being, 

and we can draw upon them 

in a natural way when we need them. 

I think part of Mervyn's fear 

that we might lose the Work was about this. 

It is not sufficient for the head 

to make an important connection. 

I must also bring it into all my centers, 

explore it, see how it manifests, 

and make it truly and completely my own. 

Then it will be mine 

and it will inform who I am becoming in the richest sense.

~J

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One Reason...

 

Diane Leonard

One reason 

why it is so important 

to find our real selves

is that no one can hurt us. 

No one knows who we are.

Others can sec the outside 

but not the inside, 

the real self.

We must be individual, 

to make our souls strong. 

Your soul can make mine stronger, 

mine can make yours stronger.

Twenty strong people could change the world - 

pure, good, strong individuals. 

There could be peace, 

always peace and harmony 

if there were only twenty men 

who understood and practiced harmony.

~Rodney Collin, The Mirror of Light

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Evolution of Faith

AI - Gemini - Generated

"When I first came to this school 

Mervyn told me that faith was not required 

and this suited me as I had none 

that I could discern. 

The only requirement from him was to 

practice the exercise of 'Divided Attention'. 

This I was willing to do as I could 

verify it for myself and at that point in my life was not

willing to take anyone's word on 

what they called faith or belief. 

As the practice continued and I learned 

more from the teachings it led me to love/grace 

(mystical tradition) and I experienced states 

which connected to higher realizations, 

experiences happened because of the 

increase in knowledge, being and understanding. 

It created a stronger ability to withstand life 

and hold on to the state of self-remembering 

and in that state other mystical things can happen and 

we begin again at higher levels of consciousness 

as we proceed up the ladder of evolution, in my experience." 

~B

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