A Secret that Never Fails to Work by Murray Oxman "At one time or another, when reflecting on our lives, we've all had the inkling that there's something missing - something not quite right here. The reason all doesn't seem well is - it isn't. Our usual...
Authentic Individuality (A chapter from Maurice Nicoll’s Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of GI Gurdjieff and PD Ouspensky, Book 3) “We have to acknowledge and accept all sides of ourselves, because only through the acknowledgement, the acceptance, the...
As a child and young adult, I was surrounded by people who were suffering terribly, yet assured me that if I continued on the path they had followed, I would eventually reach a place of relief and peace. Even though it was apparent to me at the time that they had...
Truth is a Pathless Land The Order of the Star in the East was founded in 1911 to proclaim the coming of the World Teacher. J Krishnamurti, the anticipated and pronounced World Teacher, was made Head of the Order. On August 3, 1929, the opening day of the annual...
How Dreams May Be Made to Come True (from Pathways to Perfect Living by Vernon Howard) Do you notice something interesting about the preceding ideas? Do you see how many of them go against your present concepts? That is good. It means that they can produce the...
You Can Know the Right Thing to Do (from Esoteric Path to a New Life by Vernon Howard) People constantly cry out, "But what shall I do?" The answer is that you have nothing to do but be yourself, which means to stop being the stranger that goes around...
Understanding Shocks and Self-Remembering in the Work (What follows was written by Maurice Nicoll in Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky, Volume 3 "It has been said that Self-Remembering gives a shock to the whole Being and...
Jiddu Krishnamurti says that each of us has the ability to understand the very complex and miraculous workings of the human mind if we proceed with great interest. We will come to find that it is this incredible instrument in which the "eternal, unnameable"...
This is an action that we resist because we have been taught since birth that the answers lie outside ourselves. Jiddu Krishnamurti says it very clearly: "In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your...
Spiritual Alchemy We love the teachings of Vernon Howard because he explains so precisely why we feel so bad much of the time. There is pure relief in unraveling this mystery. Here are 18 of the "60 Ways to be a Sick and Unpleasant Human Being" by Vernon Howard. ***...