Being has to do with Goodness. With Good in your Being, you will be able to understand and live the Wisdom Teachings and not merely know them.
What does Blessed are the poor in spirit mean in terms of finding the place between opposites? “We must realize that we live on this planet between the Opposites. Our whole lives, ordinarily, are governed by the Law of the Pendulum. We all swing to and fro. When you...
What is faith? Is there a deeper meaning of faith? Maurice Nicoll and Cynthia Bourgeault offer insight. “Faith is necessary to open a part of the mind not opened by the senses. To realize scale means to realize that there are different levels of meaning. Literal...
Our level of Being attracts our life—and prayers of silence from our Being attract the response from above. The Original Purpose of Prayer "Prayer was originally to ask for help to lift one to a higher level of consciousness. The Lord's Prayer is designed to make a...
Being present is to put the attention in the now. Essential Nature of Presence "The essence of the spiritual process is sustaining presence. Presence is our essential Self. It is a space to be filled by the qualities of Spirit—qualities such as love, generosity,...
Maurice Nicoll talks of spiritual awakening levels and change of Being. “Being is the presence in a person, however fleeting, of Second Body.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Fundamental Work “The whole of this work is about a change of being—that is, a change of the level of...
In the transformation of the self, what we experience in Time is the result of our level of Being. It’s not quite a mantra, but the phrase “your Being attracts your life” appears six or seven times in Maurice Nicoll's Psychological Commentaries. Like the condensed...
The self transforming relationships of these four ideas. Maurice Nicoll states that the center of gravity of Will is in the Emotional Center—the part that is the object of the Work to awaken. Instead of Will being stern resolve, there is a new emotion entering this...
Conscious labor in the Teachings makes conscious levels of relationship possible. Maurice Nicoll offers a short talk on relationship. “Relationship depends on Attitude: attitude towards oneself, towards life, including other people, and attitude towards the universe.”...
Can cooking a potato illustrate personal transformation? Read on ... In this brief talk, Maurice Nicoll outlines a crucial meaning of the Enneagram. It depicts the process by which the higher transforms the lower. The outer points of the Enneagram depict movement up...
Maurice Nicoll: Goodness is of Being, and Knowledge is of Mind In the first volume of his Commentaries, Maurice Nicoll discusses the two sides of a person’s development—knowledge and being—and how these two must go hand in hand, resulting in understanding. (p93)...