You Were Talking...

 

You were talking about 

“wearing” this string of pearls, 

rather than keeping them in a box. 

How these realizations or pearls of wisdom 

we have verified 

need to be kept close to our heart and head, 

so that we don't have to search for them 

when we need them. 

(Or this is what I took from your comments.) 

I think this is related to the idea 

of "having a longer thought." 

Staying with our realizations and verifications 

until they have gone really deeply inside, 

perhaps as part of revealing 

who we are becoming in a very real way. 

Then of course they become part of our very being, 

and we can draw upon them 

in a natural way when we need them. 

I think part of Mervyn's fear 

that we might lose the Work was about this. 

It is not sufficient for the head 

to make an important connection. 

I must also bring it into all my centers, 

explore it, see how it manifests, 

and make it truly and completely my own. 

Then it will be mine 

and it will inform who I am becoming in the richest sense.

~J

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One Reason...

 

Diane Leonard

One reason 

why it is so important 

to find our real selves

is that no one can hurt us. 

No one knows who we are.

Others can sec the outside 

but not the inside, 

the real self.

We must be individual, 

to make our souls strong. 

Your soul can make mine stronger, 

mine can make yours stronger.

Twenty strong people could change the world - 

pure, good, strong individuals. 

There could be peace, 

always peace and harmony 

if there were only twenty men 

who understood and practiced harmony.

~Rodney Collin, The Mirror of Light

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Evolution of Faith

AI - Gemini - Generated

"When I first came to this school 

Mervyn told me that faith was not required 

and this suited me as I had none 

that I could discern. 

The only requirement from him was to 

practice the exercise of 'Divided Attention'. 

This I was willing to do as I could 

verify it for myself and at that point in my life was not

willing to take anyone's word on 

what they called faith or belief. 

As the practice continued and I learned 

more from the teachings it led me to love/grace 

(mystical tradition) and I experienced states 

which connected to higher realizations, 

experiences happened because of the 

increase in knowledge, being and understanding. 

It created a stronger ability to withstand life 

and hold on to the state of self-remembering 

and in that state other mystical things can happen and 

we begin again at higher levels of consciousness 

as we proceed up the ladder of evolution, in my experience." 

~B

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