Journal

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the Gurdjieff teaching the initial opening toward knowing oneself is called self-observation. It stands to reason that if I am to know ..