Winged Victory, trust, trust and verification, FourthWayToday.org, Fellowship of Friends, Robert Earl Burton

Quotations on Trust and Verification

  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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Rilke, Choosing to Believe, Ruth Atkins, Fellowship of Friends, FourthWayToday.org, Robert Earl Burton

Seeing and Believing

  The poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, speaks of a transcendent, inward ‘seeing.’ From one of Rilke’s letters to a friend: Though you may laugh if I tell you where my very greatest feeling, my world-feeling, my earthly bliss was, I must confess to you: it was, again and again, here and there, in such in-seeing […]

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Evolution, Trees of Transformation, Klaus Labuttis, Fellowship of Friends, trust and verifications

Faith turns into Trust and Trust into Verifications

Follow your heart when you come in contact with a spiritual source. Do not judge too easily; give it some time to understand the concept and how it works. As you embark on the journey of inner evolution, independent of the body’s likes and dislikes, faith becomes your guiding light. You plant a seed of […]

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Madonna of the Shadows, Fra Angelico, Stefania Maggini, Fellowship of Friends, FourthWayToday.org

Madonna of the Shadows – the Beato Angelico

In every genuine encounter with art, we are invited into a dialogue between trust and verification: trust in the intuitive resonance that beauty awakens within us, and verification through the attentive discernment that reveals its inner coherence. Great works of art, like great spiritual experiences, ask us not to choose between faith and understanding, but […]

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