This is a New Year and so it’s time for a New You. It’s a great day when you decide to move away from your familiar self. Your whole day should be a learning experience, not a burning experience. We often get caught daily in reacting in a manner that cause us regrets...
“Break out of wrong thinking & you will breakout of every problem you have.” Vernon Howard. Don’t remain a victim of your wrong thinking. Kick it out!
View the Machine This excerpt is from Maurice Nicoll's Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of GI Gurdjieff and PD Ouspensky, Vol 3. THE SECOND LINE OF WORK "There are three lines of Work. The first line of Work is work on yourself in connection with what the...
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“Your life belongs to you and you alone.” -Vernon Howard. What a powerful quote by Vernon Howard...Your life should flow freely as a mountain brook. So don’t let a confused world tell you who you are. Don’t let anyone tell you who you should be. Learn not to fight...
Arouse Yourself to Lose (Vernon Howard) REJOICE everytime someone passes you, gets the advancement, the romance. REJOICE every time they pass you up, until you are in last place. And stay there until you see you should have done it years ago. NO MORE WINNING,...
A Note on Self-Justifying (Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Vol 3) One of the many definite things we are told by this Work to observe in ourselves, and specifically to work against, is...
SRI RAMAKRISHNA [1836-1886] Sri Ramakrishna, who was born in 1836 and passed away in 1886, represents the very core of the spiritual realizations of the seers and sages of India. His whole life was literally an uninterrupted contemplation of God. He...
Pursuing Every Thought to the Root (by Jiddu Krishnamurti) "To end thought I have first to go into the mechanism of thinking. I have to understand thought completely, deep down in me. I have to examine every thought, without...
Be a Passenger on the Boat by Vernon Howard As long as you picture yourself as a pilot instead of as a passenger, you must by the nature of things, run into storms. The solution is astonishingly simple: all you have to do is be willing to give up your place at the...
The Mystic Path is for Heroes (from The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard) Noticing our negativities is a curious process. It is like seeing a shadow and taking it as a frightening phantom. If you look closely, you see it as a mere shadow. But refusal to...
Simplicity by Jiddu Krishnamurti Our problems - social, environmental, political, religious - are so complex that we can solve them only by being simple, not by becoming extraordinarily erudite and clever. A simple person sees much more directly, has a more direct...
The Miraculous Message of Mysticism by Vernon Howard, The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power No conflict exists between mysticism and the established religions any more than there is disagreement among several lecturers who describe the same sunrise. Only their...
The World Offers Itself to You Vernon Howard, The Power of Your Supermind Let's connect natural awareness with chronic feelings of tiredness, a common complaint of physically healthy people. To do this we must frankly glance at a vital teaching of...
Commentary on Increase of Consciousness (by Maurice Nicoll from The Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky) According to the teaching of this Work we are at the second level of consciousness, designated the so-called Waking State in...
Return to Basic Inner-life Exercises As you gain more and more knowledge about yourself and. therefore, what’s really going on out in the world, you find yourself turning to very basic exercises. Why? Because of the inner gold that is hidden within. Here’s...
Great is the day when we are faced with a crisis we cannot avoid . This can bring us to a new understanding we would never have had by staying in our comfortable ways. The good news is, we don’t have to wait for a big crisis to see the truth about ourselves. We can...
*** Qualify Yourself from Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge by Vernon Howard The need to 'let go' is so fundamental to the inner adventure you should remind yourself of it often. Just realize the necessity of abandoning whatever does no good,...
Whenever I read Mr Gurdjieff's writing, the mind is exceedingly challenged to seek a higher level of understanding. It is capable... just out of practice. We find a strange sort of comfort and sleep in what we 'know' and 'understand'. To awaken that...
The following excerpt is from Vernon Howard's amazing book of practical formulas for inner enlightenment, There is a Way Out: Vital Information About the Way Out 1. Remain in the center of these wealthy teachings. 2. Truth solves all human...
SOME NOTES ON PRACTICAL WORK by Maurice Nicoll from Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky One of the first things we have to understand in working on our- selves is that we have three centres—Intellectual, Emotional and Physical. These...
The Light Cannot Be Given to You By Another ~ J. Krishnamurti, The Collected Works, Choiceless Awareness Most people, when they are confused, disturbed, want to return to the past; they seek to revive the old religion, to re-establish the ancient customs, to...
The following excerpt is from All and Everything by GI Gurdjieff. Though the style of writing by Mr Gurdjieff requires unbending attention to comprehend, it is well worth the effort. As defined here, Man was created and so differs from the rest of the...
Hold to the Straight Line by Murray Oxman from How to Tune Up Your Life Here is a Great tool to keep you on the upward path. The world has so so many distractions. People have lost their ‘sensing’ that they should be climbing and not settling into the same boring...