Patience Is...

 

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

~Aristotle

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I Love...

 

Pamela Groppe

 I love to re-member Mervyn’s words: 

“Presence is Consciousness Loving You into Existence.” 

To me that is remembering oneself in Eternity. 

To be Present 

and allow The One to Experience Itself through us. 

The other night I was having a Higher State, 

and I wrote this:

True rebellion 

is when the Divinity finds Joy in being You. 

When you realize 

the filament of light is finding joy in being you. 

That is when the Creator experience itself 

(The Creation) through you. 

That is Presence.

And that gives me a great feeling of Gratitude.

~C

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Aim in The Work

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We can all understand what aim means in life. 

It gives us a direction. Without aim

we are aimless—going nowhere. 

The most general definition of what aim means

in the Work-sense is that it is to hear what the 

Work teaches and to do what it says. 

~from Psychological Commentaries 

on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky 

by Maurice Nicoll

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I Verify...

 

I verify that my machine 

sometimes raises an inner barrier 

where finer hydrogens won't come in. 

In the distance of my inner world, 

I hear the song of conscious beings calling me 

to read their works. 

When I answer, I am pierced, 

and I know I am connecting to the divine.

~T

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Think Of The World...

 

Think of the world that you carry within you,

and call this thinking what you will,

whether it be remembering your own childhood

or yearning toward your own future -

only be attentive to that which rises up in you 

and set it above everything that you observe about you. 

What goes on in your innermost being 

is worthy of your whole love."

~Rene Maria Rilke

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The Internal Man

 

Old Man in Prayer - Rembrandt

"When thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, 

and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which 

is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret 

shall recompense thee. " Matthew vi, 6. 

It is only the 'internal Man' in a man that can obtain

response to prayer and can communicate with a higher level.

-Maurice Nicoll

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Shameless Impudence

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While the work of parables, as used in the Gospels,

is to provide a venue for the Higher 

to communicate with the Lower; 

Prayer is the Lower communicating with the Higher.

Because we are not at the same level, there are barriers 

in communication and prayers are not easily answered.

Man must insist. A man's prayer, his aim, his request, 

must be persisted; it must go on, in spite of not being answered. 

He must have shameless impudence.

Only persistence and intensity can cause 

the Higher to respond to the Lower.

~Excerpts on Prayer - The New Man 

by Maurice Nicolle

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Search, Search, Search

Prophet Anna - Rembrandt

People should search, search, search; 

try to be sincere; not imitate each other; 

and respect the truth everywhere…

study something, almost anything, 

deeply, from all angles; 

try to do original research, 

using what we have been given as the key of

understanding. 

The system is too big to waste…

- Rodney Collin

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The Good Servant

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Memorial 

by Jo Mora

"When the inner man is aware… 

we can come to see the body as its servant. 

Just keep desiring to serve.. 

and to see the perfection of yourself, 

how beautiful it is? 

How much you have transformed 

to this point in time? 

Then the two can become one- 

then step by step keep inviting 

the spirit to join that peace 

Keep the mind at bay… 

but invite it now and again 

as a tinder to ignite the soul.

~C

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In The Morning...

 

In the morning, 

I slow my breathe down to 4x per minute. 

This helps my thoughts to slow down 

and for me not to identify with them. 

Then I do my prayers and meditations 

and sometime take a walk. 

While walking I appreciate the beauty of the sky, 

the trees, the flowers, 

they are miracles. 

This helps me to connect to the divine.

~J

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Presence Is...

 

“Presence is Consciousness Loving You into Existence.”  

    ~ Mervyn Brady

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The Power of Attention

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 OCTOBER 27, 1949 Attention has the power of holding in a 

fixed field certain invisible matter or energy in molecular* 

state, which without attention diffuses indefinitely. 

This matter in molecular state has all kinds of powers of 

penetration, indefinite expansion and contraction, and so on, 

which of course the physical organism lacks; 

and in certain circumstances, through 'thinking— 

visualizing—sensing' exercises done with great attention, 

the 'experience' of this matter in molecular state can, 

I think, be communicated back to the understanding. Certainly laws*

 can be studied in this way with very interesting results. 

As I say, I think this idea that attention controls matter 

in molecular state is of is of greatest possible importance to us, 

and leads to many interesting things indeed. 

Rodney Collin -

The Theory of Conscious Harmony

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The Core of The Work

Old Woman Praying - Rembrandt

 

Am I thinking about doing the work or am I doing the work?

~S

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The Genetics of Being

Mona Lisa - Leonardo Da Vinci

It does not make any sense for 

my mind not to be where my body is.

~T

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Morning Supper

The Holy Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci

Today's morning meeting, and all Academy meetings,

 reminded me of morning mass, a banquet, 

where the hungry is fed from the food of The Highest.

"I am the bread of life. 

Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, 

and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty". 

John 6:35

~T

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Ut (Do) Re Mi Fa Sol La SI(Ti)

 

Guido d'Arezzo, Italian Benedictine, Music Theorist (990-1050) - Artist Unknown

Guido of Arezzo drew his inspiration 

and the syllables for the solfège system from a prayer in 

the Hymn to St. John the Baptist:

Latin: Ut queant laxis Resonāre fibrīs, Mīra gestōrum famulī tuōrum, Solve pollūtī labiī reātum, Sāncte Iōannēs.

English: So that your servants may, with loosened voices, resound the wonders of your deeds, cleanse the guilt from our stained lips, O Saint John.

Español: Para que tus siervos puedan exaltar a pleno pulmón las maravillas de tus obras, limpia la culpa de nuestros labios manchados, oh, San Juan.

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We Must Habituate to The Light

Back Mouth Cave. Photo: Sam West WRK900 - 

source: https://www.tokresource.org/allegory-of-the-cave

"Long enough have you dreamed 

contemplative dreams, my friend. 

Now I wash the gum from your eyes. 

You must habituate yourself to the dazzle of the light 

and [to the dazzle] of every moment of your life. 

Hence, Remember Yourself. 

Remember Your Soul." 

Walt Whitman in the voice of Mervyn Brady

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Who Deserves the Name of 'Man'

 

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“Only he will deserve the name of “man”

and can count upon anything prepared for them from above,

who has already acquired corresponding data

for being able to preserve intact both the wolf

and the sheep entrusted to his care.”

Gurdjieff

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I Verify...

 

I verify that my machine 

sometimes raises an inner barrier 

where finer hydrogens won't come in. 

In the distance of my inner world, 

I hear the song of conscious beings calling me 

to read their works. 

When I answer, I am pierced, 

and I know I am connecting to the divine.

~T

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Self-remembering...

 

Giulio Romano

Self-remembering is like a world without end! 

Mervyn emphasis to stay in a state 

connected to higher worlds,

 we need to love. 

Without love the work is not moving. 

I cannot stay and identify with the ordinary time. 

There is a need in my work 

to remember the universal brotherhood. 

They are here to help. 

Mervyn was always reminding us 

how much the gods are here, now.

~S

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As Above, So Below - A Timeless Truth

Fragment of The School of Athens by Raphael

"That which is below is like that which is above,

and that which is above is like that which is below,

to perform the miracles of one only thing."

Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus

translated by Isaac Newton

“Man is an image of the world. 

He was created 

by the same laws which created 

the whole of the world. 

By knowing and understanding 

himself he will know and understand 

the whole world, all the laws that create 

and govern the world.” Gurdjieff

"I remember the day when I saw that

God made me in his own likeness and

what was in me was in God and vice versa.

So If I started to study me... I was studying God."

Mervyn Brady

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One Must Feed...

 

 Luis Menedez

“One must feed the soul 

as one feeds the body,

 for the Soul too can starve. 

It needs a more refined food 

and as the buffers come down 

what once may have fed one, 

does not work any longer 

and new ways must be discovered.” 

~Mervyn Brady

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Each One Of Us...

 

Each one of us is so unique 

and has much to contribute to the triad of RE Gene er ration. 

Each drop of nectar that hits the soul 

and dissolves into Spirit, 

is returning to God. 

We in turn become the eyes, 

the ears, the touch, in this world. 

And yes, 

that is an endless and blissful joy indeed!

~C

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In Every Case...

Jules David, ‘Don Quixote and Sancho Panza’, 1887. Wikimedia Commons

"In every case, the remedy is to take action.

Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn

and exactly what you need to do to learn it.

BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR.

Make it thy business to know thyself,

which is the most difficult lesson in the world."

Miguel De Cervantes

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The Highest Form...

 

The highest form of intelligence is meditation, 

an intense vigilance 

that liberates the mind from its reactions.

~Jeanne De Saltzmann, The Reality of Being

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Great Grief...

 

Great grief can evoke great Love 

when it is taken into a triad with the higher. 

Sometimes just walking through the day 

there is a surge of energy, 

a sense of elation 

at the wonder and mystery that is life. 

Sometimes the soul soars 

and the creature feels a bliss of endless joy.

~M

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On Disciple and Will

 

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"A well disciplined body, [is] obedient to a wise soul. 

By obedient I mean that, whatever understanding 

dictates, the will accepts."  

Meister Eckhart

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Feelings Come And Go...

 

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. 

Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

~Thich Nhat Hanh

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The More One Understands...

 

Laura Brainard Raborn

The more one understands body types 

and the way their own machine operates, 

the less one tends to react to the feature. 

This of course is if one is working on oneself 

and has had moments of self-remembering. 

Mechanically, 

dominance will evoke willfulness, period. 

Even in small things, 

dominance makes a statement 

and willfulness says no, 

reacting without even thinking. 

If you catch the moment before you react 

(and one must be there to catch it) 

then you have a choice. 

~M

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I Realized This Week...

 

I realized this week 

how I am still being outrun 

by the will of the machine. 

But, this realization, in turn, 

has fueled my desire 

to let the will of the Soul come to play. 

I need to allow for the will of the Soul, 

which I can see, 

it just wants to feed in the world. 

When I am in the presence of others, 

my soul wants to see, it is like, 

it wants to be 'spent' by sharing itself with others. 

Realizations become like a north star 

that can guide us.

~T

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The Dignity...

 

Marc Chagall

Floating in the Blue of Love

The dignity of the artist 

lies in his duty of keeping awake 

the sense of wonder in the world. 

In this long vigil 

he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; 

but in this long vigil 

he is also himself striving against 

a continual tendency to sleep. 

 ~Marc Chagall

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Working in a School

 

Thirst - William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Sometimes, I forget that I am in a school and 

the teachings require a discipline that goes beyond 

reading the beautiful writing in the books; 

it must translate into practical understanding. 

Mervyn used to say, "Take the time to lift up a glass 

of water to your mouth in presence."  

We must relearn it all to be done in presence. 

Hence comes the question... 

what am I working on today?

~T

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