Journal

Valid teachings strongly recommend deep self-study, what Gurdjieff calls self-observation or self-remembering.

Teachings are a conversation and a basis for a search.

Teachings, as they reach us in the West, take two attitudes toward mainstream culture. One is critical. The other is an invitation to renewal, which must be warm, alive and attractive.

A teaching emerges between the demand and the response. The response is generous, a gift back.