Identifying...

 

Rene Magritte

"Identifying or "identification" is a curious state 

in which man passes more than half of his life. 

He identifies with everything: 

with what he says, what he feels, what he believes, 

what he does not believe, what he wishes, 

what he does not wish, what attracts him, 

what repels him. Everything absorbs him, 

and he cannot separate himself from the idea, 

the feeling, or the object that absorbed him. 

This means that in the state of identification 

man is incapable of looking impartially 

on the object of his identification. 

It is difficult to find the smallest thing 

with which man is unable to "identify". 

At the same time, 

in a state of identification 

man has less control over his mechanical reaction 

than at any other time. 

Such manifestations as lying, imagination, 

the expression of negative emotions, 

and constant talking need identification. 

They cannot exist without identification. 

If man could get rid of identification, 

he could get rid of many useless and foolish manifestations."

~P.D. Ouspensky

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The Tempest

The Tempest - John William Waterhouse, 1916

O! I have suffered. With those that I saw suffer! 

- Miranda- William Shakespeare

Do not pray for strength 

Pray to be pierced 

Pray to be opened 

And willingly offer your pain 

In exchange for the birth of your Soul. 

No quarter must be given.

Mervyn Brady

"When we suffer, it is as though we are on a stormy ship at sea. 

In an ordinary state of mind, it is hell, the waves are relentless. 

Men are thrown overboard, the ship threatens to sink. 

Hopelessness sets in. Feelings of doom. 

No one can help. We withdraw into tears of sadness, 

wanting to be left alone in a pool of pity.

Surrender and yield to the natural flow of your life. 

Stop resisting.

Your pain arrives like a dark cloud, resting as a 

heavy weight on your chest. Take a moment. 

Breathe in the crisp air of suffering. Let it fill your lungs. 

Allow it to infuse every cell of your body. 

The philosopher knows he or she cannot do much against nature. 

This is the Tempest, the dark night of your soul."

(...)

"You begin to realize that you are here and present. 

Feelings of hope awaken within...Like the weather, 

life in the creature world is ever changing. One day soon, 

the clouds will dissipate; rays of sunlight begin to peer through. 

Eventually the storm quiets, silence sets in. The calm after the storm.

Tears of joy fill your eyes. Your heart fills with love of 

God and mankind. You have nothing left, yet you 

have everything. You are blessed to be alive. 

With radiance from your heart and soul you desire 

to share your joy with others."

~Lauren - excepts from a hand written note

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There Is A Phase...

 

There is a phase 

when one has to go away from external knowledge, 

and find everything in oneself. 

~ Rodney Collin, Theory of Conscious Harmony

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Aligning with Higher Energies

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How to align with higher energies?

For me this is a key:

Every day I wake up, and the question is 

what is my main third force? 

Is it to achieve what my life desires for that day? 

Or is it to remember myself? 

If it is the latter I can look on denying 

force and setbacks in terms of life goals 

as a reminder of how changeable life is and 

that my main desire [is] to remember myself. 

To remember how life is like the moon, 

always changing. 

~J

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In The Inner Stillness...

 

“In the inner stillness where meditation leads, 

the Spirit secretly anoints the soul 

and heals our deepest wounds.”

~St. John of the Cross

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Recently I Have Observed...

 

Dave Gray

Recently I have observed that some "I” 

comes from a combination of our features 

and center of gravity.  

Then when one finds out they weren't real, 

it can come as quite a surprise. 

I remember Mervyn 

used to have a little cartoon cut of himself, 

attached to his computer, 

with a note that said “my I’s aren't real 

therefore I am.”

~J

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Love Under All Conditions

There are people who wish to enjoy God

and his highest manifestation, Love, 

but often only in one way and not in another.

They only wish to possess God or Love through

one sense of devotion but not another.

Whoever wants to receive God or Love

must receive them equally in all ways,

under all conditions, in tears as in joy.

Always and Everywhere. 

To presume otherwise would be for the creature

to dictate to the creator, the source of all things 

higher and lower.

Our roles are to the bring the Creator

and the Creature together and to everyone

who introduces his mother to his future mother in law.

The enormous difficulty of this must be obvious.

C influence works on us from within and evokes the Soul.

People work on us from without and evoke mechanics.

Mervyn Brady - Undated

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The Moments...

 

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"The moments of real suffering are very short, 

but we do sometimes have a sudden vision 

of what we are really like 

and that is great suffering, 

but there is a curious thing about it: 

it can turn to a kind of BLISS…

after the suffering you have bliss. 

There are not so many moments, 

but they are precious and they stand out." 

~Maurice Nicoll

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Being Metamorphosis

Gemini Ai Generated

Recently, I had an experience where I saw

a familiar scenario unfolding, and then

suddenly it was as if I used the "stop" exercise,

and everything rearranged itself into a

different view, a new meaning.

And I could make the choice to act in a

different way, responding to a better level

of understanding. And in a few words,

I was able to diffuse a possible argument

I might have had, and give a deeper more

compassionate response, which went in a

very productive direction.

An example, perhaps, of new being?

Born of long observation, perhaps?

All of a sudden the pieces of the kaleidoscope

fell into a lovely pattern of understanding,

and the possible struggle was released into a

new realm of action through this new understanding.

Maurice Nicoll would say that the new

understanding (metanoia) gave birth to

being (metamorphosis.)

~J

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EXTERNAL CONSIDERING

“EXTERNAL CONSIDERING" I have taken it

as a phrase for so long but actually became 

so excited to see it really happening in real 

present time! 

I am remembering something that happened 

the other day with someone in life and 

it was a lovely photograph. As I opened 

to this person that was complaining bitterly 

about a few things, my personality became 

invisible, and a sense of BEING, my truer self, 

surrounded me like an invisible circle and 

then I felt it go towards that person and 

include them in it.

It really felt as if just this gift of presence 

was releasing them and freeing them from 

their I'S and allowing a flow of 'inclusivity" 

of warmness. 

As often is the case, I didn’t see it then in the moment. 

I did feel it though. It was later as I reflected 

on this situation that the realization occurred 

by being silent within, maybe smiling or nodding, 

not looking or seeming like I’m "intriguing or different". 

I am allowing and giving space for that person to 

"ADJUST" THEMSELVES.

~C

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For Me...

 

For me, 

the body is the aspect of myself 

that only comes slowly into focus, 

unless I am making conscious efforts. 

I tend to pay attention to my body 

only when it calls out to me in pain, 

or tiredness, or hunger. 

I focus first of all on my mind, 

my plans, my wishes for the day. 

Then I begin to see the beauty around me, 

and my emotional connections to those I love. 

This is so beautiful. 

But often it stops there. 

The body gets left behind, I am incomplete. 

Now I see t

hat I need to change the order of my attentions, 

switch the triad. 

~J

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