On Love
The focus of attention of the higher emotional center is self-consciousness. At the same time, the capacity to know another exists at this level.
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Love – A dramatic play
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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Quotations on the Way of Love
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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Working with Conscious Influence
These days one only has to search the internet to see the availability of a plethora of discussions, some very erudite, some more subjective, of expositions of the Fourth Way as it was revealed over a century ago. These discussions constitute the turning in circles of pursuing B Influence as an end in itself. As Ouspensky stated, a correctly formed magnetic centre will only accept C Influence.
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Quotations on Higher Forces
Conscious influence can only pass from one person to another by means of oral transmission. – P.D. Ouspensky
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The Flexibility Needed for Consciousness
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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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 […]
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Time, Eternity, and the Sixth Dimension
The fifth dimension is an endless line or loop of time, and the sixth a cube or sphere of all moments. This sixth dimension contains all choices, spreading out and infinitely repeating in eternity. This may be the true meaning of free will. All that we can conceive and do is contained in the sixth dimension. Any choice we make is valid, and any choice we did not make, any line we did not take, exists also. Extending into infinity.
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Recurrence, Higher Dimensions, and Time Travel
If reincarnation and recurrence exist, which seems likely to me, then we will be able to travel to the future and the past. Only first we have to do the work of the moment; we have to be present and use our attention and focus to fashion a lighter and more durable vehicle.
Really, we are all time travelers, and our physical bodies are the time machines that we so badly want to invent.
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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.
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