Dear Fellow Students,
Today I like to remember Rodney Collin.
His wisdom and understanding pierces me each time i read his words. During the last year, here in Great Neck, we studied ‘The Theory of Conscious Harmony’ and it is from this book that today I will extract some ingredients to prepare a breakfast that i hope can feed you the same as it feeds me ............
I have a very strong feeling that the Work is not ours, but comes from above us, and that for this reason the more invisible we remain as personal individuals the better.
If a man does all he has to, one day he can disappear, leaving a vortex of power in his place about which all the rest will rightly revolve. And he will no longer be seen.
My aim is thus to participate in a continuous flow, that passes into us from above, and out of us in one way or another around and about. The moment I cling to some idea as something which cannot be passed on then I immediately create a blockage which prevents new things coming to me.
As the teacher penetrates into higher dimensions, his influence gradually 'spreads' in time.
The idea of reversed time is very interesting …. it is imperative to review all the relationships of our life, and put understanding and right attitude back info them now, while we are still alive. For in this way only could we really affect that unrolling of time. To put understanding back into the past—this seems the practical possibility to which the idea points.
If only we had 'purified emotional center' many things would become so much easier for us. Really it is pure—only other voices take it up so quickly that we don't distinguish what is said. If one learns to listen to heart, it will tell one things so clearly—what must be done, what must not be done, the real nature of people and places and things. Only it speaks so quietly, so subtly, and immediately a flood of reactions, explanations, excuses, theories have swamped it, and we do not even recognize it speak. Only listening carefully to what it wants to say, and remaining still until it has spoken, one cannot really do the wrong thing.
Hope and faith are our greatest weapons. As long as we have them, everything is possible. With hope and faith we demand to be on another level—and it will never be denied us.
You feel the soul by opening your heart to people, by accepting what is. The soul grows through the heart. The heart is the door of the soul. But with all ordinary man, this door is blocked with fear, prejudice, doubt. His heart is not open to the world. He only takes from it what he wants to take, in the way he wants to take it. If he could just be himself, be his whole self, without fear and without self-protection, he would already live from the soul. So learn simply to be, to be your whole self.
First you must live in awareness of your physical body. Then in awareness of your soul. Then in awareness of your spirit.
The whole thing lies in the relation of body, soul and spirit. Body vibrates—more in some than in others, but it vibrates. Spirit vibrates—somewhere. But the soul is very inert, it usually quivers only on the surface, not deeply. We have to make it vibrate throughout, right to its deepest part. It is shaken by joy, pain, loss, discovery, hard decisions, payment, all kind of things. By selfremembering this vibration is carried deep, the whole soul vibrates with it. When the whole soul vibrates as strongly as the body and spirit, then the three vibrate as one. We are one. We are real. We have integrity.
So really we have to be grateful for soul-shaking, though God knows it may be uncomfortable enough at the time. Perhaps our mistake is that we want peace in the wrong place. People ask for peace in their souls—they should ask for turmoil in their souls, so that they may find real peace in their spirits.
We need suffering. We all have to be purified. And suffering is the great purifier. Can we wish that it should not come, either to ourselves or to those for whom we wish growth and purification more than anything?
Recognise your companions on the way, no matter what name they go by. Recognise sincerity, kindness, truth, no matter who expresses it. Recognise that spiritual unity already exists—outside time and space. Work and pray. The rest will come by itself.
Wake up and live. Feel yourself a living being, among living companions, enveloped in the living God. That means, be real, be your whole self. Remember who you are.
There is only one true kind of rest—this is in the thought of God, in the remembrance of God, in God. In the remembrance of God, I remember who I am and I remember You.
With Immense Love,
A
