We Are Like Radios...

 

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We are like radios. 

The moment we are negative 

we may tune in to the accumulated negativeness of someone,

perhaps thousands of miles distant, 

who has been negative for years. 

There are many, many different wave-lengths, 

but there is always someone 

who has the same wave-length 

as our own, 

whom we affect and who affects us if we let him.

That is one reason why 

it is so necessary to guard against being negative, 

in order not to collect 

the negativeness of other people 

and add it to our own. 

And think of the responsibility 

if we send negativeness to someone else. 

It might be someone who 

is just getting out of a negative state

and whom we push back again by our negativeness.

~Rodney Collin - The Mirror of Light

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Sleeping Beauty...

Roland Risse

Sleeping Beauty, 

where the character goes to sleep 

for many years and is awakened by a prince 

(a teacher or school). 

In reality, there are many who remain asleep 

for most of their lives.

Sometimes, when they are in great danger, 

for example, 

soldiers often remember their time in battle 

as the time they most cherish in their lives. 

They aren’t aware that the reason for this 

is that the ever-present threat of death 

caused them to be in the moment, awake. 

Or others have a wonderful memory of the time 

when they were in love, 

and life became beautiful again 

because they were awake. 

There are many who remain asleep, 

they have a soul, 

and it will have brief moments in its life, 

but for much of it, 

the soul will be asleep and there will be no memory. 

So, they do have a soul, it just has gone to sleep.

~M

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On Goodness

Rembrandt - The Prodigal Son

I am goodness,

The Inheritance of the Wise and Nobel.

I pasture the fields of the world springing

Brotherhood and sisterhood 

Throughout.

I walk with you 

In Kindness

And I hold the hand of the lost in sorrow.

I am what makes you shine with color,

Subtle as the land,

Vivid as water

And cool as the evening sky.

Don’t walk without me.

Don’t abandon me.

I am at every corner of the world.

I am the portal to the noblest part of you.

~T

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I Remember...

 

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I remember reading about Leonardo da Vinci. 

A.R. Orage commented on him:

"Society is always creating monsters; 

because it is difficult to resist 

the inducements society offers.

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest of Europeans 

because he refused to become a specialist 

although promised much money. 

He would throw up the contract 

when he felt himself becoming unbalanced."

Da Vinci, ever experimenting, 

looking, pondering.

He never stayed still. 

Working with his kings.

How to come to a new level of understanding and being? 

In Rodney's chapter on Being 

from The Theory of Conscious Harmony, 

he writes regarding aim 

that

as Jeanne de Salzmann writes about, 

to have this 'background' ever present.

~M

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Lately, I Have Been...

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Lately, I have been observing 

the struggle between the soul and the machine for space, 

and as far as I can see now, 

the machine has been growing along with the Soul has. 

It seems this friction between the inner and the outer world 

should be transformed or used 

but it has not been very easy for me 

to keep the triad in its place - 

I mean to keep the machine feeding the soul. 

~J

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A Complete Prayer

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"Now Listen to the Prophet of Mankind (Mohammed):

'No prayer is complete without a present mind.' "

~Rumi

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We Cannot Live...

 

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“We cannot live 

in a world interpreted for us by others. 

An interpreted world is not a hope. 

Part of the terror is to take back our listening, 

to use our own voice, 

to see our own light.”

~Hildegard of Bingen

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So Many Ideas...

 

Jaime Lee Kirchner

So many ideas 

were very strange to me 

when I first joined the Academy. 

But I felt they had magic in them nonetheless.

Those which I allowed to be mysterious and magical 

and trusted that they would unfold to me over time, 

have been benchmarks and beacons for me in my journey. 

Kept lightly in hand, 

never doubting both their gravity and their opaqueness, 

they have evolved in me, 

until suddenly they came alive, 

and I understood them in their magnificence. 

Whereas, those ideas I struggled with too heavily, 

seemed instead to recede from me. 

Identification set in, clouding my view. 

Understanding is such a beautifully mysterious process. 

Bringing presence to those moments 

when my inner world has insight, 

but remaining open to the possibility of grace 

in the long-term process,

both are equally important. 

Openness, and patience.

~J

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Unfettering Man

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"Intellect is the fetter of men,

love undoes the fetters.

Intellect says, "don't overdo it,:

Love says " I don't care."

Shams Tabriz

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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...

 

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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

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"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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