Mervyn Used To Say ...

 

Theodore Robinson

Mervyn used to say 

that it is not enough to be present, 

but that we needed to bring our being 

to everything that we do. 

My understanding of this 

is that we must try to live each moment consciously, 

knowing our features 

and working with them in life situations. 

The machine is so tricky and fast. 

The soul is left behind when a feature kicks in. 

So, for me, 

the great challenge is to be present to those moments 

when the machine wants to take over 

and consciously choose the higher right. 

This I feel not only requires presence, 

but also the effort to be in the Kings, 

in order to bring compassion and love to each moment.

~J

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To Forgive ...

 

To forgive 

is to set a prisoner free

and discover that prisoner was you.

~Lewis B. Smedes

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Our Inner World...

 

Our inner world is here with us always. 

It is a matter of opening it up to “life,” i.e., 

listening to music that feeds your inner world 

in the car while doing Influence A things. 

Dividing one’s attention 

while doing anything 

brings one’s inner world 

to whatever is taking 

place at any moment.

~M

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So In This Work ...

 

So in this work 

we are trying to transform 

lower energies to higher energies. 

When higher energy is flowing through us 

we try to 'contain it' 

to go to our higher bodies 

and the container perhaps is our Holy Grail - 

the cup within 

where we are present 

and containing the energy to feed higher bodies - 

where from comes creativity and realizations.

~M

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Three Especially Sublime Benefits ...

Maxfield Parrish

 

Three especially sublime benefits 

are harvested in the soul by these raptures.

The first is knowledge of the greatness of God.

The more we see of this greatness,

the more deeply conscious we become.

The second is humility through self-knowledge.

How can something like the soul,

so limited by comparison to the creator of such magnificence,

dare to dishonor him?

In this state, she can scarcely raise her eyes to him!

The Third is a loss of appetite for worldly things.

Her only interest in the things of the world

lies in their capacity 

to be used in the service of such a great God.

~St. Teresa of Avila 

Interior Castle (on rapture)

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