Perfect Harmony – the Ideal State
When we make the movement to divide attention, the certainty of a state emerges—an ideal state of clarity. This is a perfect harmony.
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The Ideal State
External Consideration–a tool for spiritual growth
There are aspects of presence that can play in our favor. One is battling imagination, the many I’s comprising our inner world. A major tool for this struggle is external consideration, the work of being present to another human being.
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We Always Make a Profit
Can we always make a profit? Toward the end of In Search of the Miraculous, Ouspensky describes a newspaper reporter’s conversation with
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The Ideal State & Philosopher Kings
What Plato achieved in the imaginative and conceptual worlds of poetry and philosophy far outshone his achievements in politics. The social ideas outlined in the Republic and his other works referencing the state were largely impracticable, and often seem to verge on fiction.
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Striving for Justice
If there is ever to be an ideal state, it requires not only a Sage King but also citizens who strive for internal justice. Though there will always be people striving for justice in the external world, if one doesn’t strive for justice in one’s own internal world, nobody else will.
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School Traditions and the Ideal State
In Hugh James’ book, The Story of Man, the ideal state would transmit higher values to citizens to enable them to fulfill their possibilities.
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Wishing You the Ideal State
Plato’s ideal state was never meant to include everyone, only those who support it. In Athens there were many who wanted Socrates put to death. Internally, the many I’s will never really support self-remembering. Only a small inner circle of work I’s will promote the presence of higher centers.
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Working Towards the Ideal State
Working within the Fourth Way towards an ideal state, my soul grows up. It rests on a steward that aspires
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Uncreated Light and Plato
Presence is the illumination of our soul’s efforts to re-member itself. It is the revelation of the divine nature of a human being. It can be the lighting up of an individual’s life with the eternal matrix of being from which the soul springs. This is the uncreated light from which it was born.
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