Essential teachings from Maurice Nicoll, whose wartime talks in England became the Wisdom classic, Psychological Commentaries of Gurdjieff.
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...
The Parables of Jesus contain an outer and an inner meaning. Behind the literal words lies another range of meaning, another form of knowledge. Maurice Nicoll “A PARABLE is a medium of connection between a lower and a higher meaning. But it is necessary to look more...
The parable of the prodigal son is not about a young man who squanders his fortune. The Parable of the Prodigal Son: "There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father," `Father, give me the share of the property that comes to me.' "So he...
One of the Parables of Jesus, known as the Woman at the Well or the Woman of Samaria, with commentary from Maurice Nicoll and Cynthia Bourgeault. The Parable: Jesus, tired out with his journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about noon.Presently there came a...
The Spirit of the Truth rises above literal teaching, speaking from Good. “The disciples did not understand and only later some of them grasped the idea of the whole drama of Christ enacted visibly before them—namely, the inevitable crucifixion of a higher level of...
If you learn to practice conscious presence, you will practice conscious love. The two are completely bound. You can't do one without the other. Cynthia Bourgeault “Conscious love transforms, it nurtures, it calls people into being. Something blossoms in it, and it...
This Impression is about Unity and differentiation, the whole and the parts, the ocean and the drop, the dance and the dancer, the body and the cells, the individual and the Common Good—life and purpose. The Mystical Vision of Paradox "With respect to all the...
Finding a center of gravity within: how to know your True Self, or Essence. “The center of gravity is the seat of unity.” Jeanne de Salzmann, The Reality of Being, p130 “By the force of my attention actively turned inward, the movement of energy changes. Instead...
Life, coming in as impressions, must be transformed. This state of consciousness leads to thinking and understanding in a new way. “In this system of teaching, man is regarded as a three-story factory, taking in three foods—ordinary food on the lower floor of the...
Blessed are merciful, who shall receive mercy—mercy and exchange. “Our role, as most of the great teachings have talked about, is to perceive the divine mercy, the divine qualities, as they wish to come into form and enact them—things like generosity, peace, truth,...
The level above Man is called the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom of God in the Gospels. It has many other names in different writings. In the Gospels, it is said that the Kingdom of Heaven is within. Jesus's Central Teaching "Jesus said, I have come that you may have...