Be Present
No one has done enough until presence is made permanent. • Among many ‘I’s which ones can you trust? None. No one is beautiful without presence… with presence one is […]
Self Remembering – the Greatest Art Form of All
Self-remembering is the greatest art form of all. • Ironically, one can add to one’s false personality if one acquires the act of self-remembering, rather than self-remembering itself. Just do […]
More Thoughts on The Arts
The arts can make us extraordinary. Sports make the lower self extraordinary. • With presence, everything leads to humility. Your only permanent characteristic is change; you must release the old […]
The Arts
The arts are a diving mirror of nature, and they attract us because they both reflect and rise above nature. • Focus and refocus on the present, ever faster, until […]
Awakening
Music can create the remarkable sense of urgency that self-remembering requires. Consciousness is unforgiving, and Higher Centers will not allow themselves to be penetrated by anything other than self-remembering. • […]
Higher Centers / Lower Centers
We have a figure inside of us who thinks he is superior to divine presence. * There is no higher art than reality, which is Higher Centers within one. Can […]
Simplicity of Essence
There is a prejudice against consciousness being childlike. Because most men do not experience this state, they imagine Divine Presence to be hard and instinctive. • The sweetness and simplicity […]
Transcend Time
Make sure that you belong to yourself. • The arts have value only if they lead to presence. • We have realizable aims, such as being present to a bite […]
Will
Will is Self-remembering, and being present is will-power. * One of the best ways to remember one’s self is to separate immediately from the disappoiontment of realizing one has been […]
The Miraculous
It is important to be quiet and absorbent, especially around beautiful impressions. In this way one brings everything one has learned in one’s life to the present. * We must […]