I went to see her in Paris in February 1980. It is amazing how little we know about the forces…
Two fundamental pillars of the Fourth Way are ‘conscious labour’ and ‘intentional suffering.’ To Gurdjieff these were the basis for the possibility of human evolution. Conscious Labour is action undertaken with awareness. Intentional suffering is the act of struggling against automatic manifestations of the psyche that are the result of conditioning. In Beelzebub’s Tales to [...]
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“Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free…
Two fundamental pillars of the Fourth Way are ‘conscious labour’ and ‘intentional suffering.’ To Gurdjieff these were the basis for the possibility of human evolution.
Gurdjieff says that the work on oneself should be accompanied by studying the universe and its laws. Since each individual is a cosmic entity…
The Five Being-Obligolnian-Strivings of Ashiata Shiemash from the book Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson by Gurdjieff
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