Gurdjieff Studies
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Quotes and studies of #Gurdjieff's writings and talks, and those of his immediate pupils. Focussing especially on medicine, hypnotism and consciousness.
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"Excuse, exercise not make force. When you make body do what not wish do, then that make force. For making do just one little thing which hate doing, that make more force than whole day of walking."
(Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope, Book Studio, p.48.)
"Excuse, exercise not make force. When you make body do what not wish do, then that make force. For making do just one little thing which hate doing, that make more force than whole day of walking."
(Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope, Book Studio, p.48.)
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"Excuse, exercise not make force. When you make body do what not wish do, then that make force. For making do just one little thing which hate doing, that make more force than whole day of walking."
(Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope, Book Studio, p.48.)
"Excuse, exercise not make force. When you make body do what not wish do, then that make force. For making do just one little thing which hate doing, that make more force than whole day of walking."
(Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope, Book Studio, p.48.)
"...We must respond to impressions no longer from the vantage point of personality but from love for being present. This will transform our whole way of thinking and feeling."
(Jeanne de Salzmann - "The Reality of Being," p.13)
(Jeanne de Salzmann - "The Reality of Being," p.13)
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"...We must respond to impressions no longer from the vantage point of personality but from love for being present. This will transform our whole way of thinking and feeling."
(Jeanne de Salzmann - "The Reality of Being," p.13)
(Jeanne de Salzmann - "The Reality of Being," p.13)
"...In order to be assimilated and transformed, impressions have to be received by essence. This requires a conscious effort at the moment of the impression. And it requires a definite feeling, a feeling of love for being, for being present..."
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"...In order to be assimilated and transformed, impressions have to be received by essence. This requires a conscious effort at the moment of the impression. And it requires a definite feeling, a feeling of love for being, for being present..."
"…To have pure emotions would mean not being identified. How marvellous!"
(Maurice Nicoll - Commentaries, Vol.IV, p.1407)
(Maurice Nicoll - Commentaries, Vol.IV, p.1407)
December 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"…To have pure emotions would mean not being identified. How marvellous!"
(Maurice Nicoll - Commentaries, Vol.IV, p.1407)
(Maurice Nicoll - Commentaries, Vol.IV, p.1407)
(Gurdjieff - Paris Meetings, Thursday December 9, 1943)
December 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
(Gurdjieff - Paris Meetings, Thursday December 9, 1943)
"...And, in fact, you can take in these things like someone to whom one explains the same thing ten times, because your individuality and your body are exactly like you and another person... Not once, but ten times during the day, you can influence yourself through suggestion.”
December 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"...And, in fact, you can take in these things like someone to whom one explains the same thing ten times, because your individuality and your body are exactly like you and another person... Not once, but ten times during the day, you can influence yourself through suggestion.”
"…—all this work on non-identifying with certain machines, certain 'I's, in the early morning, can alter the whole day."
(Maurice Nicoll - "Commentaries," Vol.I, p.138)
(Maurice Nicoll - "Commentaries," Vol.I, p.138)
December 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
"…—all this work on non-identifying with certain machines, certain 'I's, in the early morning, can alter the whole day."
(Maurice Nicoll - "Commentaries," Vol.I, p.138)
(Maurice Nicoll - "Commentaries," Vol.I, p.138)
… A little conscious work at that time, noticing the small beginnings of worrying or negative thoughts or self-pity, etc., etc. and saying no to them—lifting oneself out of them— not taking them as you…"
December 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
… A little conscious work at that time, noticing the small beginnings of worrying or negative thoughts or self-pity, etc., etc. and saying no to them—lifting oneself out of them— not taking them as you…"
"… By the same token it takes away our strength and our time, leaving us no possibility of being objective and free—two essential qualities for anyone who decides to follow the way of self-knowledge."
(Gurdjieff, in "Views from the Real World," p.45)
(Gurdjieff, in "Views from the Real World," p.45)
December 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"… By the same token it takes away our strength and our time, leaving us no possibility of being objective and free—two essential qualities for anyone who decides to follow the way of self-knowledge."
(Gurdjieff, in "Views from the Real World," p.45)
(Gurdjieff, in "Views from the Real World," p.45)
(In L.S.M. Morris's Orage notes, 7 NOVEMBER 1927. Also "Orage's Commentary on Gurdjieff's BT," Book Studio, p.268.)
December 10, 2025 at 6:51 AM
(In L.S.M. Morris's Orage notes, 7 NOVEMBER 1927. Also "Orage's Commentary on Gurdjieff's BT," Book Studio, p.268.)
"...Pondering is a method of giving the back of the head a blood-bath. There is a different circulation for associative and for real thinking. We are really conscious only when we are trying to ponder."
(A.R. Orage)
(A.R. Orage)
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"...Pondering is a method of giving the back of the head a blood-bath. There is a different circulation for associative and for real thinking. We are really conscious only when we are trying to ponder."
(A.R. Orage)
(A.R. Orage)