I Often Think...

 

Auguste Rodin (detail of the Boating Party)

I often think of the last years with Ouspensky. 

He would have two or three people sit with him, 

not doing anything, just sitting, 

smoking, occasionally making a remark, 

drinking a glass of wine, for hours on end. 

At first it was very difficult— 

one racked one's brains what to say, 

how to start a conversa­tion, 

thought of all kinds of imaginary duties elsewhere. 

Many people could never bear it. 

But after a while, 

these became the most interesting times of all. 

One began to feel—everything is possible in this moment, 

let the past and future take care of itself. 

Some kind of momentum slowed down, 

and sometimes quite new ideas, 

a quite new connection 

with time and one's surroundings, seemed to form. 

One was shown what it meant to be more free.

~Rodney Collin, Theory of Conscious Harmony

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