The essential practice of witnessing our thoughts, emotions, and sensations with impartial attention.
You can reach a stage in which you begin to have a feeling of freedom from your moods, your emotions, and your thoughts. This is the beginning of inner freedom, spiritual freedom. Maurice Nicoll The Nature of True Freedom "All freedom is gained by rising in the...
“We don't distinguish clearly enough in our parlance today between sensing, emotion and feeling." Cynthia Bourgeault “We have to get a little bit clearer about the difference between emotion and feeling, and what feeling really is, and how feeling is related to...
The whole matter of waking up from spiritual slumber begins with meditation. “How many times is this said in the Gospels: ‘Awake, watch, sleep not!’ But people do not understand it or they think it is a metaphor whereas it is literally true. If people awakened from...
Conscious evolution only takes place by conscious effort. The Source Beyond Life's Demands "Conscious effort means effort that is not necessary in life and is not occasioned by life. That is, life is not the cause of it; the source of its origin does not lie in life....
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...
How a person is trapped in mechanical reactions at a low level of consciousness. A person’s personality may be “compared in the Work with a secretary who sits in the front room, dealing with everything according to her own ideas. She has a number of dictionaries and...
“Self-Remembering, non-identifying, and non-considering are the things that can change our Being. But self-observation is first of all necessary because otherwise you will not be able to practice these three great things.” Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries,...
Conscious life seen as a little death. “If you practice dying to things in yourself, gradually you will become more and more alive.” Maurice Nicoll, Commentaries p665 “There will be a death and a resurrection, as there always follows a resurrection from what we die...
Spiritual aim through self-observation. “The psychological meaning of the Pharisees refers, not to certain people who lived long ago, but to oneself now—to the Pharisee in oneself, to the insincere person in oneself, who, of course, cannot receive any real and genuine...