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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