The highest form of intelligence is #meditation, an intense vigilance that liberates the mind from its reactions.

- #JeannedeSalzmann, 'The Reality of Being: The #FourthWay of #Gurdjieff'

Gurdjieff left us not only words and ideas to be transmitted, but a certain life to be lived, a drama to be played out with others around us, without which the work will remain imaginary.”

- #JeannedeSalzmann, 'The Reality of Being: The #FourthWay of #Gurdjieff'

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#SpiritualSatire #AuthenticDiscipleship #InnerWork #Gurdjieff #SpiritualPractice
#SpiritualGrowth #ChristianSatire #FourthWay #SpiritualStorytelling
#ChristianMemes #FaithMemes #SacredSarcasm #HolyHumor #DivineComedy #RadicalJesus #JesusUnfiltered #MysticChristian #WhatWouldJesusReallyDo

When my body comes to a state where there is no longer any tension, I feel the fineness of the sensation of stillness. It is like the birth of being.

- #JeannedeSalzmann, ‘The Reality of Being: The #FourthWay of #Gurdjieff,’ p. 262

- P.D. #Ouspensky, ‘The #FourthWay. A Record of Talks and Answers to Questions based on the Teachings of G.I. #Gurdjieff’ (1957), p. 354-355

"One day #Gurdjieff had said that the role of the #FourthWay, this teaching which is neither the way of the monk, nor the yogi, nor the fakir, is to appear and disappear, after having deposited what was necessary at this moment, in a certain epoch, in a certain place on the Earth.

It is a struggle with our identification, to allow the energy otherwise wasted to serve the work. We struggle not against something, we struggle for something."

- #JeannedeSalzmann, 'The Reality of Being: The #FourthWay of #Gurdjieff'

President Karl French of fourthway challenges this sad little president to a duel. We will do it at any public park.

The highest form of intelligence is meditation, an intense vigilance that liberates the mind from its reactions.

- #JeannedeSalzmann, 'The Reality of Being. The #FourthWay of #Gurdjieff,' p. 270

Nobody can teach. We can only work."

- #JeannedeSalzmann, ‘The Reality of Being: The #FourthWay of #Gurdjieff’ p. 117

James Webb was a foundational scholar of the history of western #occultism/ #esotericism & moreover a key figure in the early development of an academic study of #Gurdjieff / #FourthWay— & a cautionary tale about the need for ‘unchurched’ pastoral care…

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Earth has an algorithm. You play by the rules, you get the results. Our school exists to teach you the rules, because you can never win a game you don’t know the rules to.

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Vintage photo of Maurice Nicoll from a Christmas card I found in a book of his poems I recently purchased. #gurdjieff #fourthway

#OTD #TDIH #March31, 1866: #BOTD: #HBD #GeorgeGurdjieff. #Monks #Psychologists #Mystics #Occultists #Philosophers #WakingSleep #TheWork #TheGreatWork #TheSystem #FourthWay #WesternOccultism #TIRO #OccultSky
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The Way of the Sly Man. Video (35 min) ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ONw...
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“The Master of the Carriage”. Video (41 min 50 sec) ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGK1...
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