Friday, July 31, 2026

The Realization Came To Me...

 


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The realization came to me last night, 
reading about this topic (undertaking new things)
in the work of Collin and Ouspensky, 
that to stay fresh and keep evolving in the work 
it’s necessary to activate one’s kings continually 
and in conjunction as often as possible. 
Making connections in the system 
and thinking about work ideas continually 
provides this stimulus. 
As does learning new things, 
ongoing investigation 
of the things that interest each of us. 
Crystallization and modern “depression” 
I suspect comes from the underuse of our centers - 
lack of new impressions, new challenges, 
new stimulation 
and the subsequent starvation of the Soul. 
Constant challenge to enter new environment 
with new aims 
keeps the long body of our Soul healthy. 
Pushes it out in front.
~O



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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

The Key to the Heart






The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne





"When the heart wakes, the world becomes a prayer.
Only God has the key to open the Heart."

Shams Tabrizi





































Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Sonnet 29 - Shakespeare







Sir Frank Dicksee - Romeo and Juliet





Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;

Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state [changes],
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) and sings hymns at heaven’s gate;

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare 




Saturday, July 25, 2026

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













































Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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