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Living Presence Latvia Aim: self-development and the ability to be present in this moment. Techniques: Gurdieff, Ouspensky

We must certainly stick to the path on whichGod himself is guiding us.Aristocles (Plato), LawsSebastiano del Piombo, You...
08/05/2025

We must certainly stick to the path on which
God himself is guiding us.

Aristocles (Plato), Laws

Sebastiano del Piombo, Young Lady with a Basket of Fruit (c. 1512-13, Italian, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)

All places are the temple of God.MenanderRembrandt, Self-Portrait (1655, Dutch, Bridgewater Collection, National Galler...
07/05/2025

All places are the temple of God.

Menander



Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1655, Dutch, Bridgewater Collection, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh)

The soul is its own source of unfolding.Heraclitus
25/04/2025

The soul is its own source of unfolding.

Heraclitus

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and m...
24/04/2025

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

Marcus Aurelius

Kokei, Seated Jizo Bosatsu (1177, Heian period, Zuirinji Temple, Shizuoka, Japan)

You offer me the merest appearance of beauty, and in return you want the thing itself, “gold in exchange for bronze.”Ari...
23/04/2025

You offer me the merest appearance of beauty, and in return you want the thing itself, “gold in exchange for bronze.”

Aristocles (Plato), Symposium

Raffaelle Monti, Eve after the Fall Raffaelle Monti, Eve after the Fall
(c. 1851, Italian, Joan Wijermars Collection, Amsterdam)(c. 1851, Italian, Joan Wijermars Collection, Amsterdam)

This region of truth is not to be investigated as a thing external to us, and so only imperfectly known. It is within us...
20/04/2025

This region of truth is not to be investigated as a thing external to us, and so only imperfectly known. It is within us.

Plotinus

Unkei, Self-Portrait as a Monk, detail (13th century, Japanese, Rokuharamitsu-ji Temple, Kyoto)

What is that excellent aim that the gods achieve, using us as their servants?Aristocles (Plato), EuthyphroThe Ladder of ...
19/04/2025

What is that excellent aim that the gods achieve, using us as their servants?

Aristocles (Plato), Euthyphro

The Ladder of Divine Ascent (The Ladder of Paradise), 12th century, Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt

Like a child whose teeth are just starting to grow in, and its gums are all aching and itching – that is exactly how the...
17/04/2025

Like a child whose teeth are just starting to grow in, and its gums are all aching and itching – that is exactly how the soul feels when it begins to grow wings.

Aristocles (Plato), Phaedrus

The truth concerning the soul is something we could affirm only if we had divine confirmation.Aristocles (Plato), Timaeu...
14/04/2025

The truth concerning the soul is something we could affirm only if we had divine confirmation.

Aristocles (Plato), Timaeus

It is best to do things intentionally, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.Hesiod
13/04/2025

It is best to do things intentionally, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Hesiod

A Sufi said, “Stop plunging into unconscious conversation.” Student: Internally and externally. Master: Either way you l...
11/04/2025

A Sufi said, “Stop plunging into unconscious conversation.”

Student: Internally and externally.

Master: Either way you lose.

Do not remain out of tune longer than you can help.

Marcus Aurelius

Then if the truth about reality is always in our soul, the soul would be immortal.-Aristocles (Plato), Meno-
10/04/2025

Then if the truth about reality is always in our soul, the soul would be immortal.

-Aristocles (Plato), Meno-

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