Journal

The Gurdjieff teaching is known as a work in life — that is, a striving to find spiritual solace and meaning in the details of everyday life

You must pray with all your presence and with your centers concentrated on the same thing.

The first half of religion has been communicated well; the second half has been forgotten. The second half is method.

Through the Psalms, we find a way toward a respect for what Judeo-Christian religion is so that we can voice questions raised by Gurdjieff.

At the height of Judeo-Christian spirituality, there were ideals, values -- and there were means, method. The Psalms speak of these values.

We might live in a body, but we are not aware of the fullness of its vitality. The body pulsates with life.

A facile “I know" is a rote thought. When I’m faced with the reality that I might not know, I experience a new sense of gravity in my body.

The head knows the steps; the body is the faithful servant of the mind; the feeling surrounds the thinking and the body with love.

Craft, an activity in which our functions are engaged at the same time and our awareness can circulate between our lower and higher natures.

How trees fulfill their roles and humans do not