Desire...

 

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope

“Desire is when you do what you want, 

will is when you can do what you do not want.”

― P.D. Ouspensky, The Fourth Way

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To Talk To Your Soul…

To talk to your Soul, 

Love or God, 

first be quiet and still, 

stay out of Imagination 

and act like you are in the presence of the Divine … because you are. 

The gods will communicate with you 

in their own way. 

Not in the way you imagine, 

but in their own way. 

Why not try to experience their way?

~Mervyn Brady,  "Thoughts on Imagination" 

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I Am Realizing...

 

I am realizing more and more 

that if I don’t create a separation from my thoughts, 

they will run me ragged. 

If I don’t allow a moment 

before an emotional impulse is acted out, 

to create a space to make a choice 

(and this is the most difficult), 

then I will be reacting willy-nilly all over the place. 

If I am not making constant efforts 

to remember myself, 

then I will be living in lower worlds, 

where there is no perspective 

from which to make an act from my will. 

The moment I see the identification creep in 

is a sort of threshold. 

I try to move across this threshold into my kings, 

where the vantage point is broader. 

This helps me.

~J

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