Work 'I’s Work I am grateful to have Work ‘I’s – the army of internal ‘I’s that bring consciousness to my day, to my minute-by-minute...

Establish Your Self: Be Work words or Work ‘I’s are succinct, one-syllable instructions to prompt my Self to live in the moment. They...

From our friend, Irene C. Trash Collectors “Who are you? And where do you wish to go?”  said the caterpillar in response to Alice’s...

There is nothing static about Being. One way or another, it is always changing. Being is indistinguishable from the act of becoming...

The Four Lower Centers: The Emotional Center Modern science and medicine do not know that the human organism is comprised not of one or...

“Off With Their Heads!” The King of Hearts is the singular part of the Emotional Center – or the only part of the four lower centers –...

From our friend, Astha P. Weekly Topic: The Emotional Center Gossip is talking idly, especially about the affairs of others. In other...

The Mouse is Miracle Enough Just as the common deck of playing cards contains esoteric messages about the four lower functions, including...

A Generation of Still-Breeding Thoughts In the system of the Fourth Way, P.D. Ouspensky explains that the main function of the...

Weekly Topic: The Intellectual Cente r From our friend, Lindsey V. Working with Attitudes Attitudes function as a third force—the way we...

The Moving Center and Imagination The moving center is the part that stores and operates movements. All moving external activities,...

The Four Lower Centers; The Moving Center ‘As if movement signifies life.’  So goes the saying. Without self-remembering movement is...

Skating Through Life Awareness of movement in relationship to the Fourth Way is to notice and be present to how movement can wake us up...

The Instinctive Center is Heavy; Real ‘I’ is Light According to the Fourth Way, human beings are four-brained; each of us has...

The Four Lower Centers; The Instinctive Center Presence is not a sensation. Neither for that matter, is presence a thought, movement or...

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...