“The question is not what to do but how to see. Seeing is the most important thing - the act of seeing. I need to realize that it is truly an act, an action that brings something entirely new, a new possibility of vision, certainty and knowledge. This possibility appears during the act itself and disappears as soon as the seeing stops. It is only in this act of seeing that I will find a certain freedom.
Seeing does not come from thinking.
It comes from the shock at the moment when, feeling an urgency to know what is true, I suddenly realize that my thinking mind cannot perceive reality. To understand what I really am at this moment, I need sincerity and humility, and an unmasked exposure that I do not know. This would mean to refuse nothing, exclude nothing, and enter into the experience of discovering what I think, what I sense, what I wish, all at this very moment.”
- Jeanne de Salzmann
I’ll be facilitating a disciplined and spiritual-practice-based inquiry on The Reality of Being, with an extensive chiastic syllabus. I was given this book by a teacher over 20 years ago and it instantly made life make sense. This is an invitation-only group. Not because it’s exclusive, but because it’s one of those books that reads you when you’re ready to be read by it. The letter of invitation is here.
If you feel led to live Presence as a mode of Being, please reach out to me directly for a conversation.
This will be an ongoing group that meets via Zoom every Wednesday morning at 10:00 am - 11:30 am EST.
