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Quotations on Freedom

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 […]

by Walther Sell

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.

by Girard Haven

That Which is Beyond Time

When we become aware of ourselves, we create something separate from the machine. The triad is different when we are aware of ourselves. That is what allows us to wake up.

by Natassa Cavalli

Time and Eternity

The Steward creates light, within time, by developing an earthly consciousness that can touch the celestial objective consciousness of our two higher centers.

by Benjamin B

Stillness: Childhood & Maturity in Spiritual Evolution

Higher forces come to dispel our vaporous ordinary state into something extraordinary. This is the battle we must wage in order to attain the stillness of our soul.

by The Editors

Quotations on Awakening

The third state of consciousness~ self-remembering, or self-consciousness, consciousness of one’s own being-constitutes the natural right of man as he is, and if a man does not possess it is only because of the wrong conditions of his life. In the fourth state of consciousness, objective consciousness, a man can see things as they are.

by David Tuttle and Elisa Eidner

The Eyes of the Teacher

I will always know that the state in which I experience the infinitude within, that depth in the vastness of all, is my soul being present.

by Ernst Newman

Perspectives on Awakening

Identification with our thoughts, emotions, pains and sufferings diminishes as the scope broadens. Acceptance and humility overtake any resentment and self-absorption. The manifestations of the lower self can actually serve as fuel to this state. Transforming these into presence can propel a higher state into even greater heights.

by Natassa Cavalli

Towards Consciousness

We lack attention. Are we asleep or aware of our state? And to what degree? The ability to balance the functions of our five lower energy centers leads to a higher scale of harmony for our body, soul, and spirit.

by Klaus Labuttis

Accepting Oneself – Strengthening the Aim

Reflecting the Light is not a passive or automatic process. It appears within the attitudes and choices we make. What we focus on expands. To create good habits that bring us forward on our path, we need time, effort, and daily practices to support our aim.