What A Gentle Power...

 

What a gentle power is transformation! 

Our teacher embodies the principle, 

patience = love. 

We know and he showed us how his heart's wisdom 

allowed for something in our being 

to take years to transform.

~M

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Desire And Longing...

Desire and longing 

can be so much stronger than our BEING at times, 

but just that friction between what we seek 

and what we can DO, 

can be the fire that we need 

to keep us moving ahead, I think. 

I saw a friend last night 

who often is in a dark place, 

despite her strong magnetic center 

and gorgeous creative energy. 

The last time I had been with her, 

despite my intention to help lift her energy,

I had instead 

been dragged down into lower worlds. 

It was such a classic example 

of the lower consuming the higher. 

It was daunting to have experienced this, 

but it helped me going into our dinner last night. 

But this time, 

I kept it simple. 

Instead of thinking I would "help her out," 

I instead just focused on keeping my own energy high, 

and the entire triad changed. 

She actually "saw" that energy 

and was drawn to it. 

She described it and was able to use it. 

She was able to transform her OWN state.

And I learned a powerful lesson about humility, 

and also the preciousness of our internal energies. 

So often I think I can DO, 

when in actuality the lesson is just to BE.

~J

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Ordinarily Impressions ...

Ordinarily impressions 

are received in a mechanical way. 

They are received by our personality, 

which reacts with automatic thoughts and feelings 

that depend on its conditioning. 

We do not assimilate impres­sions 

because personality itself cannot be alive— 

it is dead. 

In order to be assimilated and transformed, 

impressions have to be received by essence. 

This requires a conscious effort 

at the moment of the impres­sion. 

And it requires a definite feeling, 

a feeling of love for being, 

for being present. 

We must respond to impressions 

no longer from the vantage point of personality 

but from love for being present. 

This will transform our whole way of thinking and feeling.

~Jeanne De Slazmann, The Reality of Being

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Mervyn Said...

Evelyn De Morgan

Mervyn said, 

for the soul to be pierced by an impression, 

the impression must go right from Do to Do. 

So in order to stand in front of and be pierced by it, 

first the mi-fa interval must be surpassed 

by dividing our attention 

and then we go through so la to the si do interval. 

He said there is only one thing 

that can surpass those intervals 

to pierce our souls 

and that is love.

~E

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We Must Continue...

 

We must continue to do the Work 

because there is no alternative 

to find and serve God. 

As you know,

it is at times very difficult, 

but we have hope; 

this hope that ultimately gives us the will to continue. 

This is what we need on this trail 

that at times is full of tears, 

at times is a lonely way that, 

but if we can bring one soul, 

one student, 

one step closer to the light of God, 

all this loneliness and perhaps grief is justified.

~A

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When Life Itself Seems Lunatic...

Yoel Sevi

"When life itself seems lunatic,

who knows where madness lies?

Perhaps to be too practical is madness. 

To surrender dreams - this may be madness.

Too much sanity may be madness -

and the maddest of all:

to see life as it is,

and not as it should be!"

~Miguel de Cervantes Saaverdra, Don Quixote

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As The World...

 

Charles William Mitchell

As the world faces these dark times of destruction, 

I am reminded of the caterpillar, 

living its life through so many stages, 

finally ready to hang upside down 

and be utterly reduced to nothing 

but imaginal cells (goo). 

Faith in the six processes 

that crime must occur before healing 

and perhaps the great gift of regeneration 

is that we humbling our vessel 

to allow the Gods to reduce us to nothing 

so that we may be remade? 

Rodney speaks of this often. 

I experience it again and again, 

the false being stripped away, 

being laid bare, 

and then rebuilding with worn out tools. 

So thankful for this gift of being human, 

with a Soul.

~E

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A Student Shared Something ...

Amy Gibson

A student shared something 

 at a meeting. 

She was thinking of how 

when the caterpillar 

has hibernated into the chrysalis, 

it must be uncomfortable! 

That went right into me. 

Yes, it IS uncomfortable. 

To just be and do the INNER work. 

Often I'm not sure of what this entails. 

So, I hold the higher & the lower 

and it feels like I'm the middle. 

It's uncomfortable. 

BUT, if I can persist with patience 

& a determination, 

there is a breakthrough. 

It's as if I'm percolating inside and holding it, 

trusting in this process 

that I don't fully understand. 

So mysterious. 

Words cannot do justice to this wonder. 

~M

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Dare To Declare...

Emily Olson

Dare to declare who you are.

It is not far from the shores of silence

to the boundaries of speech.

The path is not long, 

but the way is deep.

You must not only walk there,

you must be prepared to leap.

~Hildegard Von Bingen

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I Have Always Been Fond...

 

I have always been fond of the saying 

“Do not let religion 

be an obstacle to the religious experience.” 

It seems that religion 

is more for the machine, 

and religious experiences are for the soul 

and its relationship with God and the angels - 

from these experiences 

the love of God pours out towards others.

~M

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I Was Observing My Ides...

 

Christine Soliman

 I was observing my ides, 

those that don't want to do the work, 

those that make my inner world

feel like a solid balloon that can't be pierced. 

And I thought, 

I have to acknowledge and transform it. 

It reminds me of those kids 

who are troublemakers in school, 

who don't want to follow instructions 

and wants to do as it pleases. 

How much I have loved those children. 

How much I have worked with them 

and waited for their transformation. 

However, I had to acknowledge them as different 

and wish with them 

on a more Loving way without judgement, 

lovingly teaching them boundaries. 

So it must be with the parts of me 

that need to shepherd more, 

an inner and complete transformation.

~T

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What Is It...

Marc Chagall - Lovers in the Moonlight

 

What is it we have to let go of? 

Could be a question each asks for themselves. 

One person's friction is 'just another day at the office' 

for someone who may be experiencing real suffering. 

For that person exists the opportunity 

of transformation of the suffering. 

We all have our identifications 

but when we are in state of presence 

with the inner world, 

we see the laws of the universe operating, 

we see things are happening 

in their automatic cause and effect ways. 

But real suffering is special. 

The transformation of real suffering 

is one of the fastest ways 

to feel real and unconditional love, 

to connect to the higher. 

One way we can let go of friction and pain 

and hold on to Love 

is by accepting the play of the lower centres 

and going higher with Love.

~M

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The Art Of "Noticing"...

 

That art of “noticing” 

has been resonating in my mind and heart. 

As I listened to the Bach, 

I could feel the vibrations throughout my body, 

those waves of sound, 

the chorus of beautiful souls singing, 

Bach’s ability to express grace in sound. 

And I began to look around me, 

seeing the tableaux in our home 

which became more vibrant, 

more resonant. 

And then I looked at our chihuahua, Rudy, 

standing in the kitchen, 

and suddenly I felt him so strongly, 

the beauty of this tiny being, 

and my eyes welled up with tears, 

my heart soaring in gratitude. 

I realize we are all part of that chorus of souls, 

of angels-in-the-making 

singing our individual parts of the great music of life, 

if only we could see that always.

~J

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We Need To Find God...

We need to find God,

and he cannot be found 

in noise and restlessness. 

God is the friend of silence.

See how nature - 

trees, flowers, grass grows in silence;

see the stars, the moon and the sun,

how they move in silence..

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

~Mother Teresa

 

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I See Jesus Walking...

 Ivan Aivazovsky

I see Jesus walking on top of the waters. 

His feet just touching the surface 

but not going into the water. 

As when we can separate and "see" our I'd, 

our sufferings, yet not becoming them. 

It's a beautiful image. 

The waters may be roaring underneath, 

yet we can stay above it.

~M

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The Transformation Of Real Suffering...

 

Pablo Picasso

The transformation of real suffering 

is one of the fastest ways 

to feel real and unconditional love, 

to connect to the higher. 

One way we can let go of friction and pain 

and hold on to Love 

is by accepting the play of the lower centres 

and going higher with Love.

~M

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The Beauty Of Certain Music...

 

The beauty of certain music, 

all the notes being played in harmony 

and sometimes disharmony 

making the melody of song. 

Our Song is to be here 

with every note that is being played.

~S

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No Two Leaves...

 

"No two leaves are alike,

and yet there is no antagonism between them

or between the branches on which they grow."

~Mahatma Gandhi

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The Gift...

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

The gift of working together in harmony, 

seeing that we are all the same, 

we all struggle, daily, 

moment by moment sometimes - 

the urgency to know when that moment is, 

how I can become aware of the vibrations 

of the higher calling to me, 

asking me to transcend. 

Let go. 

Then when I do, 

it is pure joy, joy above emotion - 

Jesus on the sea.

Feeling that I AM in nature and nature is in me, 

no separation from creation. 

What a beautiful experience that is. 

And one by one 

to know that we all exist in that space, 

taking all the souls that participate 

up into the mist of the crashing waves, 

to begin again and again.

~C

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Don't Only Practice...

 

Don't only practice your art,

but force your way into its secrets;

art deserves that,

for it and knowledge 

can raise man to the Divine.

~ Ludwig van Beethoven

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We Must Attempt...

Elani Van der Merwe

We must attempt to form habits 

that correspond to our aim to awaken 

and abandon those that add to our sleep.

Each of us 

has sufficient knowledge to awaken 

and yet we need to be reminded of what we know. 

Because we easily forget our aims, 

we need to arrange our life 

in such a way 

that it is conducive to self- remembering. 

Familiarizing ourselves 

with the beauty in our surroundings 

requires effort 

and indicates the value we place in ourselves.

We do not have much time left 

to accomplish our aims, 

and we cannot afford 

to squander it on self-deceit.

~Aim Journal

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I Think It Was Epictetus...

 

I think it was Epictetus 

who said we can "never step in the stream 

in the same place twice." 

And so, we are always beginning again, 

gathering new inspiration 

(breath) from life and our Work. 

A brilliant reminder to keep it fresh, 

be open to the new vista, 

to appearances of the miraculous.

~J

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I Count Him Braver...

"I count him braver 

who overcomes his desires 

than him who conquers his enemies, 

for the hardest victory is over self."

~Aristotle

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In These Last Weeks...

 

 In these last weeks 

I have been focusing on the question of, 

"Level of Being". 

What exactly does it mean for me 

and my work and my work in the school 

and with other students? 

When I find myself a little stuck 

or wondering "what is next?", 

it is often better for me to stay in the moment 

(of course, beginning again 

and digesting a few things 

or trying to see what has brought me to this point).

~C

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Whatever Separates You...

 

Barbara Walker

Whatever separates you from the truth, 

throw it away, 

it will vanish anyhow. 

~ Yunus Emre

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A While Back...

A while back 

I was in great distress. 

I lit a candle and kneeled in front of Jesus,

looking into his eyes. 

Something happened. 

I was soothed. 

The pain was still in me, 

but I could handle it, bear it. 

I think about that often. 

It's a miracle of sorts, isn't it? 

I want to be open to that portal.

~M

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We Need...

 

Brenda

"We need, in love, to practice only this:

letting each other go.

For holding on comes easily;

we do not need to learn it."

~Rainer Maria Rilke

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The Heart Of Mary...

 

The heart of Mary -

 Jesus the soul.

Jesus, who shows us how to connect

 to the unfathomable one. 

We use the word "energy" a lot. 

I do - to describe 

many things and ideas that are invisible. 

Jesus as the great connector to the world of God, 

a world without end. 

Endless and undivided. 

The Love that connects beloved and lover 

is the most real way that can possibly understand 

and enter into His World.  

As students and seekers

 life teaches us how to love. 

And if I can't love, 

(then) how to accept 

and if I can't accept, 

how to see.

~J

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