Jeff
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Jeff
@sputnikbreakfast.bsky.social
Gurdjieff, music, art
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majestatic
August 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Nothing essential is ever lost
August 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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“You see, #Socrates,” she said, “love is not exactly the desire for beauty, as you think.”
“Well, what is it then?”
“It is begetting beauty and giving birth to it.”
“I suppose you’re right,” I said.
“Of course I’m right,” she said.

- #Plato, ' #Symposium' 206e
August 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way. Attention has consequences.~ Iain McGilchrist, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘌𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺
July 31, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A rose can be many thngs

Gary Lachman
July 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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“There is something in us, eternally young, that can understand beyond this visible world, beyond phenomenal reality. But this one thing in us, eternally young, is lost by us in the world of objects and the external things of the senses ... [and] wastes itself ...”

~ Maurice Nicoll, The Mark.
July 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Big sky
July 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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If you are working inwardly,
Nature will help you.

~Gurdjieff
July 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Nature is more intelligent than you; she knows better than you which are the best conditions for your work.

- #Gurdjieff, Paris Meeting, January 16, 1944
July 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM