September 2021 - Fourth Way Today

Location, Location, Location

The more experience we gain in using the work ‘I’s, the more we follow their direction to the present, the more often they will come. They create an inner circle of identity that is more interested in the work than in the subject of identification of the many ‘I’s. Even if this identity collapses and needs to be recreated, it represents a more permanent state.

by Rowena Taylor

The Changing Sense of ‘I’

In this work to awaken fully, we experience a changing sense of ‘I’. First, our sense of ‘I’ develops in childhood, as we grow away from the simple essence with which we are born. We develop personality, trying on aspects of new personas into adulthood. When we begin to seek a way out of the […]

by The Editors

Inner Considering and External Considering

External considering requires a conscious effort to see another, to put oneself in the place of another, to be intentional and kind.

by David Tuttle

Our Sense of ‘I’

How big is our sense of ‘I’? The size of our sense of “I” is an index to see what our level of being is in a given moment. ‘I’ Becoming Big The ego manifests as a strong feeling of being someone in particular. – Meher Baba In simple daily moments, I observe an internal […]

by Radhika Shah

Who Am ‘I’?

Great changes and shifts occur in me that I cannot describe, but they are very real. Ways open. A fragrance from the divine comes through. No one sees this, but it is the most profound event in my life.’ – Bahauddin

by The Editors

Fourth Way Authors on the Sense of I

All work for development has two sides—something old in man has to be killed and something quite new has to be born. Preparation for the one and the other must go side by side, and they require quite different work. – Rodney Collin

by Walther Sell

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 […]

by William Page

On Finding Oneself

The very idea of finding one’s self is problematic because we are the never the same. If you think you have found yourself—a solid, unchanging self—wouldn’t that imply that you’ve stopped growing?

by Natassa Cavalli

The Sense of I

How does self-observation develop our sense of I? A Sequence of Work ‘I’s Once, during an elementary school break, as I now remember, I started playing hide and seek with children from all six grades in the school. Then an older girl yelled at me: “What are you doing in the game? Cockroach! Eh, cockroach! […]

by Elisa Eidner

Beyond ‘I’

How do we go beyond ourselves to awaken, beyond ‘I’? What Happened to ‘I’? I am sitting in a cafe. My fingers gently engage the cup. I pick it up and take a sip. In this instant, I am. I feel the energy of my being inhabiting my internal spaces, visible and invisible. I recognize the taste of my own […]