Journal

Charles White

Our two natures: to question, to seek, to find -- 2

If our first nature develops in such a way that it consumes all our life force, we don’t give any consideration to our second nature.

Charles White

Our two natures: to question, to seek, to find -- 1

Each of our two natures has distinct capacities that need to be developed in order for us to fulfill the purpose of our existence.

Pam Brennecke

Toward an Inner Silence

Relaxation, silence, a sensed awareness of the body, an inner attention, and self-observation are a basis for self-study.

Ed Sciore

The Gurdjieff / de Hartmann Music as a Teaching -- 2

The role of the pianist is to convey the emotional quality of the music. This music has a vast emotional content, which is often subtle.

Ed Sciore

The Gurdjieff / de Hartmann Music as a Teaching -- 1

Listening to the Gurdjieff / de Hartmann music educates the three centers -- thinking, feeling, moving.

Roger Lipsey

Faith, Hope, Love ... and Conscience -- 8

This teaching offers a way to develop a keener conscience over a lifetime. But also to create a new experience of conscience.

Roger Lipsey

Inner Considering, Inner Contortions -- 7

Inner considering - the tensions that come over our bodies, the troubled minds, the troubled feelings when we worry what people think of us.

Roger Lipsey

Mechanicality or Drivenness -- 6

This teaching suggests that as you observe yourself, you discover a quality of drivenness -- mechanically -- as if we are machines.

Roger Lipsey

Attention -- The Unifying Factor -- 5

What is missing? The unifying factor is missing -- free attention that can move within us, that is not subservient to any of the centers ...

Roger Lipsey

Our Three Centers: Thinking, Feeling, and Moving -- 4

The Gurdjieff teaching offers a map. There has to be a map, a description of human beings so that can begin to know myself .