The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
Faith of consciousness is freedom.Faith of feeling is slavery.Faith of body is stupidity. – Gurdjieff The soul, when it sees a trace of its kindred reality, is delighted and thrilled and returns to itself and remembers itself. – Plotinus I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself. – Gurdjieff Our faith […]
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Quanawi: Perfect Man is the bridge, the mirror, without which nothing of the cosmos would receive the divine energy of joyful union, because of the lack of interpenetration. Meister Eckhart: The eye with which I see God is the very eye with which God sees me. Zen master Sokei-An: The Buddha said that there is […]
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Our end is to follow the gods. And the essence of good consists in the proper use of impressions. So, make a practice at once of saying to every strong impression: ‘An impression is all you are, not the source of the impression.’ Then test and assess it with your criteria, but particularly one. Ask, […]
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The way of love is slower, but more certain than the way of denial. Robert Burton When we have attained love, we have reached God, and our journey is over. Philokalia Where there is love, there is Oneness and, in complete Oneness, the Infinite is realized completely at all times and in every sphere of […]
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The line of being is the accumulated effect of efforts to awaken, the ability to be the words, i.e., to put theories of the system into practice, not just to know them. – Robert Burton
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When a man begins to be aware, in a dream, that he is asleep and that what he sees is a dream, he awakes. In the same way, a soul, when it begins to realize that all visible life is but a dream, approaches awakening.
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Conscious influence can only pass from one person to another by means of oral transmission. – P.D. Ouspensky
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These quotations on freedom come from a variety of sources, including Fourth Way authors, as selected by our editors. The sweet bondage which is freedom’s self. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last human freedom-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. ~ Viktor […]
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The following quotations on time and eternity are from Fourth Way authors and other eminent writers. “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”- Marcus […]
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The following quotations on stillness resonate for those seeking to quiet the mind and heart on the quest for higher states of consciousness. “Stillness means the shedding of all thoughts, even those which are divine; otherwise, through giving them our attention because they are good, we will lose what is better.” Gregory of Sinai, Philokalia […]
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