Living Presence

“People lose all appearance of mortality by living in the midst of immortal blessings.” -Epicurus

In the soul of that very person, there is a better part and a worse one and, whenever the naturally better part is in control of the worse, the person is self-controlled or master of himself. -Plato Portrait of An Archer About 1506 - 1510 by Giorgione

“She says not a word too much.” -Ancient Egyptian Poetry “Enjoy in silence the gifts which the gods may give.” -Homer

Oh God, I have erred, seeking thee without, who was within. -Augustine

Our gentle flame provokes itself. -Shakespeare

“One can be anywhere in the world tomorrow but it is a struggle to be Here Today.” -A Fourth Way Teacher

Light,Light. The visible reminder of Invisible Light. -T.S. Eliot

Each Teacher reveals the truth in his own special way and then he disappears. - A Sufi Portrait of a Man by Bartholomäus van der Heldt 1650

Muse! Be thou mine oracle, and I shall be thine interpreter. -Pindar Oedipus and the Sphinx by Gustave Moreau

The many emotions of the lower self.

"Who are you? Where are you from?" I am a son of Earth and starry sky. But my race is heavenly. - Orphic Gold Tablet (4th Century)

In contemplating thyself never include the vessel which surrounds thee.
-Epictetus

There is that in me—I do not know what it is—but I know it is in me. Wrench'd and sweaty—calm and cool then my body becomes,
I sleep—I sleep long. I do not know it—it is without name—it is a word unsaid,
It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol. -Walt Whitman Snow White

Zhang Boduan, Understanding Reality (11th century): Reality spontaneously shines throughout, with no "I" or "they" — one need not seek it thought after thought. The sky is telling a secret to the earth. 🤫

A crack has been produced through all levels of matter, and through time itself by the direct intervention of electronic energy. Through this crack the perception of ordinary men may see into higher worlds. There now lies a way of escape which did not exist before. -Rodney Collin

A significant part of Self-Remembering consists in recognizing the sublime in the ordinary. Our life consists of many ordinary moments, many ordinary miracles. -A Fourth Way Teacher

When the mind has learned to say nothing, presence shines of itself. -Dionysius the Areopagite. New Issue on FourthWayToday on the Value of Stillness fourthwaytoday.org/category/…

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. -George Gurdjieff