Accepting Our Type

Rembrandt - A Woman in Bed

"False personality does not want you to be in essence.

It is dissatisfied with who you are.

Every phenomenon is a stick, 

it has a good end and a bad end.

What we tend to look at is only the bad end.

With that bad end of the stick, is the impulse 

to work against what we are.

At some time you have to accept the machine 

that you are in. This is a big pill to swallow.

When you learn your type you can minimize 

the denying force your machine brings you. 

For example, other types of machines. 

A passive type may have to stand up to an active type.

One has to keep experimenting to practice your art.

The higher you go the more you have to lose.

You have to learn about body types 

so that the body can talk to the soul — 

not the other way around.

If you know types you can be the master of any situation.

Even if you lose you can be the master 

by learning from your loss."

Mervyn, April 21st, 1998

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Understanding...

 

AI generated 

Understanding is not only a function of effort 

both to digest knowledge 

and strive to realize its experience, 

it is also a function of time. 

The understanding of a conscious teacher 

cannot be transmitted in full to anyone directly. 

No one would understand. 

Everything in the work is so intimately personal 

and comes from our own direction and undertaking, 

our own desire to realize each stage of the work.

~O

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The Cupola...

 

The Cupola is a beautiful structure 

and has the opening directly in the middle of it, 

where the "real I" CAN LOOK. 

Years ago, in Mexico 

I was in a monastery, 

and there was a room with a cupola 

and below it a coffin 

where the monks were laid out at their funeral. 

The realisation was, for me at that time, 

that the soul escaped and saw the entire gardens 

and place where it had lived. 

That this room 

was an objective space for it to see in the moment 

of release after the body had died, 

everything it had lived in that space of the monastery, 

all the rose gardens 

and surrounding areas of the monastery from a higher place.

~C

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Faith

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"If the soul is all we have, maybe faith is its fuel...

a quiet trust in the Divine and the Unknown." 

~C

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It Is Easy...

 

It is easy to sit up and take notice,

What is difficult 

is getting up and taking action.

~Honore de Balzac

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