The Reality of Being

I need to accept emptiness, accept to be nothing, accept “what is.” In this state, the possibility of a new perception of myself appears.

Either I am imprisoned by my ordinary sense of “I,” which prevents any contact with my real self, or I have a nostalgia for the “divine” that I feel at the root of my being, which shows me what I must serve. My

This force, which sustains us in life, does not want self-remembering. It drives us toward manifestation and refuses the movement inward.

It is an affection that embraces everything that I see and is indifferent to nothing. I need to see.

This intuition is the action on us of higher centers from which we are separated by our attachment to our functions.

My effort is made with something that does not belong to my ordinary means. I need a certain will and desire unknown to my ordinary self.

This Work is a school for developing a new center of gravity. Until now the center of gravity around which our life has turned—whether we accept it or not—has been our ordinary “I.” And it is still this “I” that hopes, that evaluates, that judges .

For a form to remain alive, we need always to return to the source, to the truth. Below the Absolute, at all levels, there is remembering and a thirst to turn toward the greater, toward what is. But, as we descend the ladder of involution, forgetting appears and becomes deeper and deeper.

I must see that if I am not present, I serve only my ordinary self and go toward the destruction of what I truly am. So between these two currents then there is nothing, there is nobody.