This Is The Story Of The Soul...

 

(Beauty and the Beast )

This is the story of the soul (Beauty) 

and the machine (The Beast). 

In this one, 

the soul will only agree to marry 

(live 50 -50 with) the body, 

when it is certain that the body is refined, 

sensitive, and makes efforts to give it beautiful impressions. 

Often souls stay asleep because the body is too coarse 

and takes up all the energy or space. 

This is part of the reason 

that the school encourages us 

to cultivate our appreciation of the arts.

~M

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In My Experiences...

 

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

 In my experiences with the "nameless" 

I have verified Mervyn's angles, 

in that it seems 

that while there may be laws in those higher realms, 

there is no system, per say, 

that needs to be abandoned 

because it does not exist in those states. 

The systems (the Fourth Way in our case) 

are meant to guide and assist and help us navigate, 

define and begin to understand ourselves 

and those around us on a deeper level. 

But I have found there are no words or definitions 

when the higher has chosen to lift my soul. 

It is an altogether different form of communication. 

An "Inner Miracle" as Mervyn states. 

That seems to only require 

that the smaller "i" get out of the way.

 ~J

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I Just Realized...

 

I just realized that to keep a beginners mind 

and to be curious at every moment 

gives you the opportunity to be there, 

Present; 

and also to keep learning from every situation. 

I feel this is a good practice 

to step out from imagination and fascination. 

As well from interpretation from the formatory mind.

~C

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Finding The Heart...

 

The Temple of Love

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

...finding the heart in it 

regardless of what center of gravity 

you are living with. 

One must develop 

the emotional part of one’s being. 

For the instinctive or moving centers, 

one must develop the happiness, 

the joy of using those terms 

because emotions do not make sense 

to an instinctive/moving centered person. 

From this lightness 

you get close to what is true to you,

and slowly the peeling of your garments of falsehood 

will bring you to the painting that I described recently; 

The Temple of Love 

where one is naked to receive this gift 

of truly who you will become.

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Start By Doing...

 

Start by doing what's necessary; 

then do what's possible; 

and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

~St. Francis of Assisi

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