Tools for dividing time
“Divide time like the
divisions on a twenty-four inch gauge.
There are twenty-four equal
parts and twenty-four hours in the day.
We can then divide 3 into 24 where we are left with:
8 hrs devoted to spirit and a
distressed worthy friend
8 hrs for our usual vocations
8 hrs for refreshment and sleep”
The common gavel is an instrument
used by masons to break off the corners of
rough stones,
the better to fit them for the builders use……
We are taught to make use of it
for the noble and glorious purpose of divesting
our hearts and consciences of all the vices and superfluities of life;
thereby fitting our minds as living stones for that spiritual building….”
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The Gentlest Thing in the World
~by Byron Katie from “A Thousand Names for Joy”
“The gentlest thing in the world is an open mind. Since it doesn’t believe what it thinks, it is flexible, porous, without opposition, without defense. Nothing has power over it. Nothing can resist it. Even the hardest thing in the world — a closed mind — can’t resist the power of openness. Ultimately the truth flows into it and through it, like water through rock.
“When the mind first becomes a student of itself, it learns that nothing in the world can possibly oppose it: everything is for it, everything adds to it, enlightens it, nourishes it, reveals it. It continues to open, because it’s in a fearless, undefended state, and it’s hungry for knowledge. And when it realizes that it’s nothing, it can penetrate everywhere, even when there’s no room for it, no place to receive it.
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The Thunder, Perfect Mind – The Gnostic Society & Nag Hammadi Libraries
Translated by George W. MacRae
I was sent forth from the power,
and I have come to those who reflect upon me,
and I have been found among those who seek after me.
Look upon me, you who reflect upon me,
and you hearers, hear me.
You who are waiting for me, take me to yourselves.
And do not banish me from your sight.
And do not make your voice hate me, nor your hearing.
Do not be ignorant of me anywhere or any time. Be on your guard!
Do not be ignorant of me.
For I am the first and the last.
I am the honored one and the scorned one.
I am the whore and the holy one.
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