The Theory of Conscious Harmony Quotes

“Now I begin to feel that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; and that activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“Nothing is ever finally achieved till death, and even that must at the same time be merely a new beginning with new equipment.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“It seems sometimes that all we have to do is first to swallow our own negativeness, and then to swallow other people's. How much poison can one swallow? Perhaps that's all there is to it.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“The body lives in space and time, subject to matter, illusion and sense. The spirit lives in eternity and truth. The soul must unite the two. So, all that is certainty belongs to the spirit, all that is struggle belongs to the soul. The spirit knows God, the soul has faith; the spirit knows God, the soul has hope; the spirit knows God, the soul has charity. This is how the soul is made to vibrate, and man becomes one, becomes himself.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“The problem for all of us is how to distinguish between the help we receive and what our own imagination conjures up round it. It does not mean to say that we must have no imagination, nor that we must not elaborate things for ourselves. But we must know what is original and what we have added. Otherwise all becomes confused. Self-remembering* is the magic talisman in this process. In moments of self-remembering we know the answer, we know our place, we have no pretensions, only certainty.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“True humility is connected with giving up the luxury of worrying about ourselves—it makes no difference whether it is in the form of vanity about our achievements or doubts that we can do what is required of us. Both are preoccupation about ourselves, and preoccupied with oneself one cannot see what is needed nor be open to receive the help which is pouring down upon us all the time, and which if we trust in it can enable us to do the impossible.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“In a moment of self-remembering, body, soul and spirit are all aligned. Understanding flows between them. Therefore, in a moment of self-remembering we have no sense of time, we have no fear, we have no doubt. Forget ourselves again and time, fear and doubt return. But in self-remembering they have no place. It is true freedom.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“No one remains discouraged by his own failures except he who was vain enough to believe himself above all failure.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“The more people come to us for help, the more we grow. They will ask for all kinds of help, but some will ask for spiritual help. And this will push us towards spiritual growth. This is the whole of the Work.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“Faith begins by never doubting a truth we have once recognized. Hope begins by not taking ourselves too seriously. Charity begins by smiling at our neighbor. Love begins in two ways—by remembering ourselves, and by forgetting ourselves.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“We must be melted down and remade, repeatedly. We must pray that crystallization does not overtake us.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“To be aware of the Kairos for each action means evoking minimum resistance”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“Each person must find himself, be sincere, honest and truthful through self-remembering. Then he will gradually find his place in this plan, and all the help he can receive.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“I wonder that a great voice doesn't come out of heaven thundering: '0 ye of little faith!' When will people understand that a new age has really dawned? When will they stop sealing up the terrible crack into heaven which Ouspensky has made, with precautions and good behavior? We must allow divine madness to take possession of us now, before hell freezes!”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“Much suffering in human life results from a fruitless attempt to retain a note that has already ceased to sound, or to anticipate a note that has not yet sounded.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“Pride and humility seem two sides of the same state—of taking oneself as an individual seriously.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“Sometimes, when people asked Ouspensky about self-remembering, he said: 'Bring heart to head.' I think there is another movement which we also have to learn, especially when alone—bringing head to heart. Balance between two modes of perception depends on it. Sometimes there is too much pressure in one place, sometimes in the other. Harmonized, they can hardly make mistakes.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“Make yourself quiet, ask your heart what you are to believe and do, then cling to that and do it with all the force you can muster. And never let the voice of logic and probability prevent you.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“The best way to learn is to teach, provided that the one who teaches is the deepest 'I' that really knows.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“One must not describe something intellectually to a person who lives in instinct.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“To impose our own feelings or ideas on others is absolutely wrong. There can be no right relation to others but bringing out their own real and deepest purpose and understanding.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“People need to look more into the depth of time, in order to escape from preoccupation with themselves and the little movements of their minds. I think this is one of the chief reasons why we must go on learning. If one does not give one's attention to what is really interesting, one gives one's attention to oneself, which gets one nowhere.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“We must not forget that the soul grows by being given away.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“It is very lucky to be an optimist. Though whether one is lucky because one is an optimist, or an optimist because one is lucky, I still don't know. In any case I am both in a superlative degree.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“While some people are enslaved by blaming others, some are equally enslaved by blaming themselves. It is the same thing. Freedom is when one sees oneself impartially as one does an interesting stranger, without praise or blame.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“My planet can't sing the song of yours, nor yours of mine. But if several learn to sing their own we may hope that a harmony will result. I believe it will.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“Perhaps finding one's role relates to finding the positive side of one's weaknesses, and the higher possibilities of one's likes. But to one's own role one must come; then everything else falls into place.”
― Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony