Will, Unity and the Many I’s From our friend Girard H. In the Fourth Way, a student learns to understand the difference between will and...

What Do You Love? From our friend, Rowena T. The way of love—is this a path we can follow? Love is a much-used word. What do you love?...

Conversations From our friend, David Tuttle Today, a few thoughts about the work and conversations. Opposite thinking is a characteristic...

Always Agree to the Rules There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. — E. B. White...

Use Work ‘I’s to Transform Suffering We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their...

Will, Consciousness, and Being From our friend, Girard Haven Will, unity and the many I’s In the Fourth Way, a student learns to...

Work ‘I’s: Sparks of Consciousness In its simplest form, a Work ‘I’ is a reliable word or thought that activates a higher, more conscious...

Numbers We could also define consciousness by number. According to this division, men and women number one, two, and three are...

The Divine Contrast Rodney Collin theorized that animal life on Earth are experiments. A dog is an experiment in the function of the...

The Moving Centre As An Anchor The body is always in the present. Our hearts and minds may wander, but the body is always right here...

Nature Does Not Hurry Lately, I have observed that I am caught in the chaos of compulsive busyness, behaving more like a hamster running...

Try to  Be  Out-of-Patterns I am pleasantly surprised that I can almost trick my machine into being more aware and present by...

Judgement and Thinking “Thinking is difficult, that’s why people prefer to judge” C.G. Jung As a student in a Fourth Way school, I was...

Making Connections: Becoming an Instrument “If these ideas become connected rightly in you then your mind will become a  receiver , an...

Psychological Thinking “I’ll think about it.” Such an everyday expression. Would it be a surprise if we were to say that there are at...

TIME Replying in a letter to a friend, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe wrote  ‘My apologies that this reply is so long. It would have been...

The jacks of centers are very good ‘wind-up’ tools. Tell them where to go, what to do and they’ll get on with it. Kings of centers...

Attitudes -A New Heart Part II Attitudes are third force. Conscious or unconscious, just or unjust, selfish or selfless, they govern how...

From our friend Charles R. There are no attitudes in higher centers. They admit everything that comes within their sphere of awareness,...

A New Heart “The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you...

The Midpoint One angle on ‘householder’ that has stuck with me from my early days in the school, is that householder is the midpoint...

Important Assignments of Life “Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested,...

Householder From our friend, Charles R. The system comprises various descriptions of physical and psychological states. Center of...

The Ant and the Grasshopper and “Living” through Chores The below Aesop fable describes the necessity of diligence and sustained efforts...

The Unobtrusive Life From our friend, Charles R. Presence is an invisible wordless state. The nature of the efforts we make to arrive at...

Perceiving the Infinite One of the more difficult states that I struggle with is when an inner darkness asserts itself and blocks...

Ministers Of The Soul From our friend, Charles R. We see, we hear, we touch, we taste, we inhale. Through our five senses we navigate our...

Bumper sticker: “Honk if you don’t exist” I saw this bumper sticker today and it made me laugh and reflect on the role of the senses in...

The Point of Departure is Verification Verify everything. I can observe myself and make psychological efforts, and I have learned that I...

Choosing Attitudes Intentionally When the topic of attitudes was recently introduced on our Facebook page, I recalled the inspiring...

Willing Travelers Once upon a long time ago, a man traveling from his hometown to visit his neighbor stopped for the night and camped...

Right Attitude and Altitude A powerful tool in the Work is intentionally selecting and using psychological attitudes. Much of my...

The Walls of Mechanicality The tools and techniques that schools have perfected are rooted in understanding the mechanical and habitual...

Resist Resistance in the Machine Our teacher recommends trying to be out of patterns as much as possible. We naturally fall into...

Impressions: Words Matter “Learn to separate the fine from the coarse.”─ Hermes Trismegistus In the life and maintenance of our...

A Grain of Sand Impressions are food. There is food for the instinctive center, for the moving center, for the emotional center and of...

Impressions Fuel Change in the Heart: Real Alchemy “The bodily food we take is changed into us, but the spiritual food we receive changes...

The Extraordinary Food of Impressions “There is a food other than ordinary food. This is the food of impressions, which are penetrating...

Work I’s Carved from Stone “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time...

Choose Your Weapon The last two or three posts have made us familiar with Work I’s and their function. To review, these are i’s and...

Opposite ‘I’s, Judgment ‘I’s, Work ‘I's My teacher taught me that when a person says something to us, anything, our first reaction will...

Work I’s Work for You I am grateful to have Work ‘I’s – the army of internal ‘I’s that bring consciousness to my day, to my...

A weekly exercise Each week an exercise will be posted for the aim of raising awareness and being present in the midst of ordinary life....

To Be or Not to Be -An Inner Triad Gurdjieff said that [wo]man, as a three-brained-being, is a triad of three forces: the mind, the...

The Unconscious Mind Behind The Unconscious Machine Each center and part of a center has its own job. When it performs it’s function...

The Intellectual Part of the Instinctive Center Opposes Awakening “Why does the intellectual part of the instinctive centre actively...

“Stillness, the Ruler of Movement” ― Lao Tzu Whether learning to crawl, walk, run, balance on a bike, knit, play a musical instrument,...

Conversations Today, a few thoughts about the work and conversations. Opposite thinking is a characteristic of the formatory center, or...

Center of Gravity Although we all possess all four lower centers, each of us has a center of gravity in one of these brains. That is, one...

“Off With Their Heads!” In the recent post titled “The Heart of Kings,” the author points out that the King of Hearts is the singular...