Time and Eternity

Time and Eternity – Taoist Texts

The way to experience eternity is to change one’s awareness from the passing of time, or from having no awareness of time at all, to awareness of the moment. Because one soon forgets this kind of awareness and is pulled back into identification, esoteric traditions use a method to enable one to keep one’s focus on the present moment.  

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Walther Sell, the center of true stillness, FourthWayToday.org

The Center of True Stillness

What is the center of true stillness? The Fourth Way teaches that a person is a collection of many ‘I’s and that one’s Real ‘I’ is asleep. Because people’s real identity does not participate in their daily activities, people identify with the many ‘I’s. As a result, a person’s identity comes from the ten thousand […]

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Balancing yin and yang, Walther Sell, FourthWayToday.Org, Fellowship of Friends

Balancing Yin and Yang

Human beings are subjective. Each person sees the world through his center of gravity. Man has four brains, an instinctive, moving, intellectual and emotional center. Part of a person`s make-up is the fact that one of these centers is predominant and a person experiences the world more through this center than the other centers.  A […]

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presence of God, Walther Sell, Fellowship of Friends, Robert Earl Burton

Self-Remembering and the Presence of God

Self-remembering is awareness of the presence of God. – Rodney Collin  This may be a surprising statement for some people that are involved in the Fourth Way. Some feel that the power of Fourth Way is that it stays away from religion and focuses on the psychological and spiritual aspects of awakening.  One reason that people who became […]

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Yin, Yang and the Law of Three

The Fourth Way teaches that the Law of Three is one of two cosmic laws. It states that every phenomenon, whether physical or psychological, is the result of three forces coming together in a moment. These forces are active, passive and neutral–or affirming, denying and harmonizing. Let’s take the example of learning to play a […]

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The Grace of Uncreated Light, FourthWayToday, Fellowship of Friends, Robert Earl Burton

The Grace of Uncreated Light

Being satisfied with the present moment means being unconcerned with whether or not higher forces will allow one the grace of experiencing one’s higher self. At this point, one accepts whatever the moment brings. After consistent efforts over a long period of time, one may experience Uncreated Light at unexpected moments. Yet this is the result of previous efforts.

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Being Awake, Walther Sell, FourthWayToday, Robert Earl Burton, Fellowship of Friends

Being Awake

When one digests or transforms impressions through self-remembering, higher centers appear. Even when the higher state subsides, the energy resonates in one’s being for a while.

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Plato, Fellowship of Friends, Robert Earl Burton, Ideal State

Striving for Justice

If there is ever to be an ideal state, it requires not only a Sage King but also citizens who strive for internal justice. Though there will always be people striving for justice in the external world, if one doesn’t strive for justice in one’s own internal world, nobody else will.

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true and the false, Fellowship of Friends, Robert Earl Burton, FourthWayToday

The True and the False

True earth arrests true lead;True lead controls true mercury.Lead and mercury return to true earth;Body and mind are tranquil and still.— Zhang Boduan, Four-Hundred Words on the Golden Elixir This little verse contains everything one needs to know to awaken. However, understanding the meaning is not an easy task and requires a conscious teacher. And […]

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