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An esoteric school dedicated to the practice of living in the present. Work with a precise method and a teacher. Centers worldwide.

Santa Barbara, CA
Joined April 2011
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"There are the moments when something new enters us, something unknown. Our feelings step back, a stillness arises, and the new thing, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing. " ~ R.M.Rilke
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In the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence and how to live by dying. -Johannes Tauler, 14th c. German mystic
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Most experiences are unsayable, they happen in space that no word has ever entered. - Rilke
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Student: Is there any shortcut to awakening? Teacher: Yes. Patience.
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Emerson: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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When I let go of what I am, I become who I may Be. -Lao Tzu
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O you, who should be on the brow, where are you? Egyptian Coffin Texts
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I was not satisfied with a mere theory: I wanted to be sure. -Augustine
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Awakening means taking away what is not you until your last breath. - Fourth Way Teacher
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There is no miracle without presence, only lower-self-deception. -Robert Burton xitter.cf/FourthWayLondon/status…
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"Self-Remembering is for the common moments in one's life." Fourth Way Teacher
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“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation." Rumi
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When Life Is Uncertain bepresentfirst.com/when-life…
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Gurdjieff: No one can escape from prison without the help of those who have escaped before. 🎈To escape in the modern age, one must find our school.🎈Robert Burton
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💥It must be understood that without outside help a man can never see himself. 💥Gurdjieff
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💥Being present leads to crystallization of an Astral Body, the formation of an immortal Soul.💥Robert Burton
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Rumi: A silkworm eating leaves makes a cocoon. Silkworms begin to truly exist as they disappear inside that room. Without legs, we fly. When I stop speaking, this poem will close, and open its silent wings.
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Nosce te ipsum
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One should not imagine oneself to be identical with the world~Buddha Astral essences are born in the Sun by the billions. When one with the capability to enter the human body arrives, so does the possibility of developing a viable soul occur. But few seek to make efforts to Be.
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Humanity is the earth’s nerve endings through which planetary vibrations are received for transmission. George Gurdjieff
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