Clarification on the nature of change by Almass. “Many authors on inner development write about the void, or ego death, as if it were one definite experience that ends the ego identity once and for all. This is false and misleading. Ego death is a repeated, and in time a continual, experience. The void is …
A wish for you in these beginning days of 2020… ON THIS DAY “May you fall madly in love this year .. In love with someoneWho unhinges your tired trajectory In love with a spouse of several yearsWho might be aching for lightning In love with demanding childrenAnd crazy relatives .. In love with the …
Loving-kindness and MeditationPema Chodron “When we start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline, we often think that somehow we’re going to improve, which is a subtle aggression against who we really are. It’s a bit like saying, “If I jog, I’ll be a much better person.” “If I had a …
As Mr. Gurdjieff would say, that in the beginning of any new endeavor (from Beelzebub’s Tales) to pronounce out loud, or to yourself, “In the Name of the Father and the Son, and in the name of the Holy Ghost, Amen!” So, in striking this note at the very beginning of the enlivening and initiation …
