When all limitations are transcended, nothing remains but the One Will that is ‘I.’ J.G. Bennett (1897 – 1974)
J. G. Bennett Quote – “There are two basic duties for man in this life…”
There are two basic duties for man in this life: one is to serve nature and the other is to find God. J.G. Bennett (1897 – 1974)
J. G. Bennett Quote – “Without humiliation, Love, when it enters the conditioned world…”
Without humiliation, Love, when it enters the conditioned world, gets caught into the polarity of love and hate and finishes as its own opposite. J.G. Bennett (1897 – 1974)
J. G. Bennett Quote – “Divine Love does not derive its power from separation…”
Divine Love does not derive its power from separation but from union. It is not fullness but emptiness, not Being but the Void. J.G. Bennett (1897 – 1974)
J. G. Bennett Quote – “The ‘man of the way’ is a familiar concept in all religions…”
The “man of the way” is a familiar concept in all religions. The elect are “called to be saint.” The Buddhist marga, the “path of liberation,” once entered will be followed to the attainment of perfected being. The man of the way in Sufism is the salik or seeker of the truth. J.G. Bennett (1897 – 1974)
J. G. Bennett Quote – “It was the very essence of Gurdjieff’s teaching…”
It was the very essence of Gurdjieff’s teaching that the pupil must stand on his own feet and he took every measure, sometimes apparently harsh and brutal, to break down any tendency towards dependence upon himself. He would go to the length of depriving himself of much-needed helpers in his work rather than allow a relationship of dependence, or subordination. […]
Basil the Great Quotation – “Do not despair or cast aside every good hope…”
Do not despair or cast aside every good hope because your present state is quite unenviable. Rather, turn your thoughts to the blessings already granted you by God and to those reserved by promise for the future. Basil the Great (329 – 379)
Basil the Great Quote – “True prudence is the knowledge of what to do…”
True prudence is the knowledge of what to do and what not to do. One who possesses it never refrains from virtuous works and is never pierced by the deadly arrow of vice. Thus, he who understands words of prudence knows the difference between what is insidious, structured for deception and what reminds us quietly about the best way to […]
Basil the Great Quote – “In the solitary life, what I at hand becomes useless…”
In the solitary life, what I at hand becomes useless to us and what is wanting cannot be provided, since God the Creator decreed that we should require the help of one another, as it is written in scripture, so that we might associate with one another. Basil the Great (329 – 379)
Karl Barth Quote – “History is the display of the supposed advantages…”
History is the display of the supposed advantages of power and intelligence which some men possess over others, of the struggle for existence hypocritically described by ideologists as the struggle for justice and freedom of the ebb and flow of old and new forms of human righteousness, each vying with the rest in solemnity and triviality… Yet one drop of […]