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Living Presence Today We aim to promote the ability to be present in this moment, and use techniques from Gurdjieff and Ouspensky in the Fourth Way tradition. All rights reserved.

See us at www.LivingPresence.com and join us for open meetings held around the world. Copyright Fellowship of Friends 2022. Images courtesy of The Fellowship of Friends and public domain. Images reproduced from other sources are for spiritual and educational purposes only, and are not to be used for any other purpose.

People spend their entire lives in varyingdegrees of identification.— Robert BurtonWakefulness is the way to life.The fo...
11/02/2026

People spend their entire lives in varying
degrees of identification.
— Robert Burton

Wakefulness is the way to life.
The fool sleeps as if he were already dead,
But the master is awake and he lives forever.
— Buddha

Creatures of a day, what is anyone?
What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow.
Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine,
there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.
— Pindar

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The Play Scene in Hamlet (detail) Edwin Austin Abbey

Self-remembering is the art of raising the conscious child within you.— Robert BurtonChildhood is the highest of all con...
11/01/2026

Self-remembering is the art of raising the conscious child within you.
— Robert Burton

Childhood is the highest of all conditions in this life.
— Julian of Norwich

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves
the seriousness of a child at play.
— Heraclitus

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The Horseback Ride, William Bouguereau

A danger exists within one’s work of accumulating too much knowledge,as knowledge in excess can prevent one from establi...
10/31/2026

A danger exists within one’s work of accumulating too much knowledge,
as knowledge in excess can prevent one from establishing scale correctly.
— Robert Burton

Even if a person reads and teaches a hundred thousand books
on intellectual and knowledgeable issues but does not act on any of it,
then it will not benefit him at all.
― Al-Ghazali

Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme,
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Then unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time.
— Shakespeare, Sonnet 55

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Stonehenge prehistoric monument, Wiltshire, England

Try to stay small. The lower self has an inflated imaginary picture of itself.Whether conscious or unconscious, we are a...
10/30/2026

Try to stay small. The lower self has an inflated imaginary picture of itself.
Whether conscious or unconscious, we are all quite small.
— Robert Burton

We are always brought back to something infinitely small,
which is infinitely more than everything.
— Simone Weil

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
— Plato

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Hand with Reflecting Sphere, M.C. Escher

It is not sufficient simply to honor the Gods;we must labor for them as they do for us.— Robert BurtonAll, all will pass...
10/30/2026

It is not sufficient simply to honor the Gods;
we must labor for them as they do for us.
— Robert Burton

All, all will pass away as a dream!
The flowers fade, and give lessons unto man
that he is unwilling to profit by.
Yea, the world itself will pass away,
and nothing will remain but God!
― The Teachings of Zoroaster

And, all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
— Shakespeare, Sonnet 15

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Procession of Syrians, Apadana at Persepolis
Iran, (c. 559 BCE)

True personality will be formed by remembering oneself.— Robert BurtonThe truly silent man, he withdraweth himself apart...
10/25/2026

True personality will be formed by remembering oneself.
— Robert Burton

The truly silent man, he withdraweth himself apart.
He is like a tree growing in a plot.
It groweth green and doubleth its yield.
― Amenemope

Make thee another self for love of me,
That beauty still may live in thine or thee.
— Shakespeare, Sonnet 10

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Janus Bifrons, Vatican Museum

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.— Queen Elizabeth IThere is nothing more mechanical than expressing n...
10/24/2026

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
— Queen Elizabeth I

There is nothing more mechanical than expressing negative emotions,
and nothing more conscious than transforming them.
— Robert Burton

To gulp down anger is the most courageous act one can perform.
One who does it becomes humble.
— Meher Baba

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The Horse Fair, Rosa Bonheur

Hand in hand with angels;Some are out of sight,Leading us, unknowing,Into paths of light.— Lucy LarcomMan's condition is...
10/23/2026

Hand in hand with angels;
Some are out of sight,
Leading us, unknowing,
Into paths of light.
— Lucy Larcom

Man's condition is both glorious and horrifying, but eventually,
for those who enter the Way, it is divine.
— Robert Burton

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
— Henry David Thoreau

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Tobias and the three Archangels, Filippino Lippi

Third state makes people quiet.— Robert Burton“I don’t think . . . ,” then you shouldn’t talk, said the Hatter.— Lewis C...
10/22/2026

Third state makes people quiet.
— Robert Burton

“I don’t think . . . ,” then you shouldn’t talk, said the Hatter.
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

What I would really like is to escape into great silence.
— Etty Hillesum

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Woman Holding a Balance, Johannes Vermeer

It is totally irrelevant whether you are male or femaleor black or white because consciousness is not functions.— Robert...
10/21/2026

It is totally irrelevant whether you are male or female
or black or white because consciousness is not functions.
— Robert Burton

Any negative attitude towards one’s s*x
is an obstacle to development, while a positive attitude towards it
may bring quite unexpected and extraordinary things.
— Rodney Collin

It is I who am a man, you who are women.
— Amma Sarah (Desert Mother)

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Wood block print, Ando Hiroshige

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