The Truth is Now

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The truth is not to be found in the past, but NOW.

The past is really only useful to indicate to us how 

wrong we did everything. It is at best a reference to 

our impotency in the face of life. 

Of course, this impotency still exists even 

when one awakens, but what replaces it is a 

realistic appraisal of what is possible and what is not.

In this piece of the universe that was given 

to you to be your prison, there is no other place 

where you could be present right now. 

We forget this. This is the way it is. 

Your life is being lived right now, 

and you can be winning or losing every moment. 

When we are together like this, 

it makes it worthwhile and bearable.

It is far more valuable to study why one 

is awakening instead of studying why one went to sleep, 

especially when one has verified that one had to. 

Awakening is a far greater miracle than sleeping. 

Modern psychology is obsessed with the past. 

The work is now, yes, this very moment.

~Mervyn Brady

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True Self-Remembering

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The work is not about a constant focus on me.

Observations are important but the 

constant concern about one self, 

one's hydrogens, and under which laws I am 

can be another form of identification, 

and therefore, sleep. 

Rodney Collin talks about the importance 

of larger works, larger visions, to create 

something to serve, to get out of the narrow ways 

of one’s own troubles. 

Do the impossible. Really let go. 

We have to peel ourselves like onions. 

We go deeper in understanding, being. 

But we can’t put back the onion skin we have removed. 

We can not act as if we have not changed. 

“A person can not remain what he is and 

at the same time develop into a new kind of person. 

The New can not be contained in the Old. 

The New must destroy the Old, 

taking from it what is necessary.” 

Rodney Collin - The Mark 

We can not remain a seed and become a tree. 

Mervyn emphasized the importance of letting go. 

We must let go. 

There is actually no choice or we are stuck. 

What is my third force in self remembering? 

What do I serve? 

We can live without fear, distress, 

if we truly stay present. 

Self-Remembering will become self preservation. 

“Self Remembering prevent us from ever becoming lost. 

It is a true compass.” Rodney Collin

~S

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In The Presence of God

William Blake - Oberon and Titania on a Lilythe

I was in the presence of God;

I was sent to earth;

My wings were taken;

My body entered matter;

My soul was caught by matter;

The earth sucked me down;

I came to rest.

I am inert;

Longing arises;

I gather my strength;

Will is born;

I receive and meditate;

I adore the Trinity;

I am in the presence of God.

-Rodney Collin

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Lending a Pen to Our Soul

 

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"There is a private chamber in the soul

That knows a great secret

Of which no tongue can speak.

Your existence, O love my dear,

Has been sealed and marked

“Too sacred,” “too sacred” by the Beloved-

To ever end!"

~Hafiz

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Thoughts on Death

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For all its technological achievements, Western Society has

very little understanding of death, or what happens in or after death.

Death does not mean annihilation and loss. 

People die as unprepared for death as they are unprepared for life. 

They serve only the great machinery of nature and 

not the desires or wishes of the Gods. 

The subject of death and dying must be opened up. 

Appreciation for life often comes as knowledge of 

one's death emerges, then one is ravaged by regret. 

We are not condemned to go out empty-handed at death 

to meet the great unknown. 

We can begin to prepare for the experience now. 

Death is a mirror in which the whole experience of life is reflected. 

My greatest wish is to live and die without regret.

Mervyn Brady - 

Extract from email to his students dated Tuesday, Sept. 8th, 1998.

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Reach for Love, Always!

Remembering You Today and Always, Mervyn.

I think for Mervyn, 

Self Remembering was distilled to one clear aim:

Reach for Love (higher Love) always.

He reached straight into each of our hearts.

Reaching for Love requires a desire and courage

deep beyond our ordinary self, to the Real in us.

If we can be so bold to follow a true desire 

to the source, its origin is the Divine.

Reaching for Love is guaranteed to bring unbearable friction

and rip apart the tightly woven fabric of our ordinary lives.

But keep going anyway.

The Path of the Heart is self-correcting.

What we need to see will be revealed and

Divine guidance arrives when we are ready to listen.

Even in our most desperate hours,

how can we be lost or forgotten on the Path of the Heart?

With A Universe of Gratitude and Love to Our Teacher.

~ J

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Harmonizing Energy

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In this work, we do not force the energy.

We learn to listen to it,

guide it,

and harmonize with its movement.

Through a gentle [divided] attention,

breath,

and posture,

we open a space for the body and mind to reconnect.

We use this practice to return to ourselves, 

with presence, simplicity, and inner calm.

~G

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Love Much Outwardly

 

The Source of Inspiration by Constant Montald (1907)

We were designed to love, not to be loved. That is why if an enemy hates you, and you love him (you are in a state of love,) the stronger the enemy is, the stronger the love can become. You see, that is very different from what we think of as love — meeting someone and holding hands and living in a cottage ’til we are old.

Love pours out of us. That's the next revelation. It doesn't flow into us. We think, "I need love." No, you don't! You need TO love. We have to fix the notion that "there is something in me that needs love." You might need emotions; you might need somebody to tell you that you are nice or something. But the strongest love is the one that flows outward. And if you can let it flow outward, no matter what happens, then that fountain will never stop flowing.

To look at this another way, the denser the energy we burn, the more mechanical or human we are. The lighter the energy we burn, the more conscious, awake, or closer to God we become. So one of the exercises we must learn, if we are sincere with our work, is to love much outwardly. To not concern ourselves with what the machine wants or needs to make it feel better, because this is usually short-lived and temporal. But to try and love consciously. To express love, to give love, to radiate love.

That's the highest level that a man or woman can reach on this earth. That's what makes us more like God. It is our love that dictates our divinity...

Mervyn Brady

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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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