Doing and Happenings

The meeting started with a reading from Ouspensky’s “The Fourth Way”, Chapter 10 (We cannot ‘Do’), explaining how we think we make our own internal decisions and act accordingly, yet are actually being controlled by external influences.

If the internal decisions correspond to the external influences we will do it, otherwise we do not.

This was followed by a discussion where the possibility of being able to change ourselves from a relatively mechanical existence to being able make our own decisions, instead of letting things just happen, was the main theme of our discussion.