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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