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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To begin I should make it clear that Meher Baba considered himself an avatar, and that what I have to say here is partially an attempt to understand what that means. In simple terms, an avatar is a god who became a man, rather than a man who, through efforts in his life, evolves into […]
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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 work for us therefore lies mostly in minimising that which is not love. For example, negative emotions, inner considering, judgement, and unconscious speech and movement separate and isolate us from the higher state that is love.
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“Only with the heart can one touch the sky.” Rumi. That piece of flesh that pumps blood from the first moment of our gestation, that we call “heart,” is not the spiritual heart we read about in mystical and religious traditions. Rather, when we refer to the heart, in terms of spiritual work on ourselves, […]
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As George Gurdjieff pointed out, the first step in our journey of self-improvement and love is observing ourselves without the urge to change what we see.
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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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What can we do in our inner work to achieve an open flexibility towards consciousness? It is true that… *..Developing sequentially our “being”… *..Watching the “I’s” springing from each part of our four lower energy centers… *..Connecting our will to our “heart of hearts”… *..Eliminating any negativity from our “queens”, “kings” and “jacks”… *..Surpassing our inner “steward” and following our awaken soul’s […]
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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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