Charles Brennan

Real wisdom requires a direct participation in event ~Lao Tzu Presence must be sought moment to moment through Remembering your Self always and everywhere. Once this is fully realized then the path will open before you evermore.

Can you believe there is a queue to the top of Everest. Everyone of them is searching for the wrong thing and achieves nothing lasting. " when you get to the top, keep climbing~Milarepa

Most humans either don't care about the afterlife and many more are totally deluded by religious leaders. You will not survive your death in any form understandable to you because you will have done nothing to achieve the soul"s viability at all. Really !!!!

The Uncreated Light is itself both Divine love and Divine wisdom, indivisibly one in eternity~Silohuan Presence is uncreated light of the soul or astral body created by efforts to Be. The soul has 2 potential higher minds which must be discovered within, engaged and educated.

Where are you going? What are you doing? What ambition drags you and makes you forgetful of yourself?~Petrarch A system of knowledge must be found to teach us how to be aware of our selves to every moment that we can make an effort. You must find those who know how to Be Present.

"The old man does not see, nor can he Be, what the new man is~Burton "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might Be~Lao Tzu We must grow emotionally to the point where we value that which is highest within, the potential to become an awakened conscious being.

Presence is the natural higher state available to us moment to moment, yet practically everyone accepts their daily psychological state as being who they are. But almost everyone is a figment of their own 'Sleeping Imagination', a lower state of existence !!!!

There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again~T.S.Eliot There is an external interior self. It is the animal self with human tendencies. Then is there is the undiscovered interior Self. Find this now or there will be nothing after death.

If a man is entangled in the things of this world, it is very hard for him to recognize that there is another invisible struggle & another inner warfare ..... ~Metaphrasti If you are not watching within, you don't really exist, because existence has its necessary requirements

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages~Emerson That is: Higher Emotional Presence from the source within!!!!

Ouspensky with Gurdjieff There were many talks and I was in an unusual emotional state which then began to be burdensome. I then asked G how this state be gotten rid of? Do you want to go to Sleep? said G Certainly not! This is what you wanted, you are not asleep right now! G

Common sense is the seat of the Soul~Leonardo The Pineal gland is the doorway to the realm of the higher Self but only educated emotional efforts will open this secret door to the world of Presence.

Age has practically nothing to do with our emotional development. Look at the American politicians of a certain ilk. It is obvious that they have not matured emotionally, nor would they ever have a thought about something higher and truer than themselves ever.

By "heart"we do not mean mere feeling, but something much deeper_ the organ which knows God~Philokalia Our essence's heart is in the solar plexus and it is Metaphysical in nature and not physical whatsoever it is the door to the Self.

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press, in schools & universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling comfortable in the knowledge of having the Majority on its side~Goetrhe

Time is the most valuable thing of which a man may spend~Diogenes Many are capable of focusing their energy to achieve their goals and many are not. Yet this is the same stick with two ends. Most never realize that what they achieve in life will die with them.

You must have sincerity, otherwise don't bother~Al-Jiliani Presence requires the highest directed emotional energy that you can muster.

But it requires awareness,,deep sensitivity to what's going on between ourselves & the people we are conversing with. That means we have to Be Present and listening & not merely waiting our turn to speak. The space between words have as much importance as the words themselves~Zen

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light~Goethe We don't have time for someday, the other light must be sought for, for all of your life with all of your force, love and Presence.