The Heart Leads The Mystic Way

Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. - St Theresa of Avila & St John of The Cross

To be like mystics stay with them awhile,

For even if you should be made from stone,

Through mystics as a jewel you'll soon be known;

Plant love of saints now firmly in your heart,

Submit your soul to those who'll never part,

While there's still hope don't wallow in despair,

Why choose the dark when there's a sun up there?

Your heart will lead you to the mystic way,

Your body drags you to its cell of clay,

So give your heart food from those in accord -

Seek fortune from the ones who know their lord!

Rumi - Extract from The Masnavi

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Nature Is...

 

Nature is more intelligent than you; 

she knows better than you 

which are the best conditions for your work; 

and if you work, 

Nature calls on conscious spirits 

who will arrange for you the conditions you need. 

For ordinary man, 

for the man who does not work, 

there is nothing but chance. 

But for the man who works, 

Nature gives him through conscious spirits all that he needs.

~ G.I. Gurdjieff

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An Interesting Happening...

 

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An interesting happening has entered my life recently. 

As many of you know 

my personal interests in an active life and training 

started after living the first half of my life 

caring little for my body. 

I've experimented and utilized 

many different training systems, 

forms of exercise, sport and activity.  

Recently the desire to move better 

became an aim since having felt my body slowdown 

in the last couple of years. 

It will be 50 in July.

It seems C influence has sent into my life 

a form of training without heavy weights 

or anything traditional. 

It focuses on the nervous system 

and utilizes extreme isometrics, 

holding positions for a long time 

and using all of your might 

to pull yourself deeper into positions. 

It hurts a lot and is quite difficult. 

So, the point is, after having held these positions 

last Thursday there was an increase in vitality, 

perception, connection from my nervous system to the world. 

My plan was to not attend the meeting here in Vallarta 

because mu son was with me 

and no help to babysit. 

We happened to be close to the meeting site 

ten minutes before it started and my heart wanted to go. 

So, listening to that, 

what now is understood 

to be the voice of my consciousness 

springing from the heart, we went. 

And there it was the best meeting we've had yet. 

Very high states, 

the original moderator was an hour late, 

and we explored many questions and angles 

in the work related to new students. 

It was a verification 

that when we heed the call to serve, 

the table is set and will be fed by the Gods.

Secondarily, the suffering of the body 

in that exercise woke something up in my system. 

Kundalini yoga does the same, 

where we go past our limits and endure pain. 

Rodney also documents it, and Gurdjieff - 

the holding of arms out for extended time 

to master pain in service to something higher is a form of payment. 

~O

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Mysticism - Raising The Sails

Rembrandt - Ship at Sea

Mysticism starts with the raising of the Sails 

and the Gods provide the Wind.

To go into the open Sea is different 

than rowing around the shore.

I sensed the limitations of rowing versus 

the Sail and started to overcome the criticism 

of others that in applying the Sails I was slothful 

and lazy. The criticism kept me rowing for many years.

I started to understand that to "Know" truths 

by a simple glance of the Soul was a Mode of 

Knowledge and Understanding far above 

the Human Mind. The Mind in its turn seeks 

after Truths by reasoning and will not tend 

to acknowledge the Superhuman Mode or 

Mystical Mode, or even their existence.

~Mervyn Brady - 

Extract from email to his students: "Mysticism Part 3" 

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Do Not Be Afraid...

 

Annie Stegg Gerard 

“Do not be afraid; our fate

Cannot be taken from us; 

it is a gift.”

~Dante Alighieri, Inferno

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