"One needs fire," Gurdjieff told his students. "Without fire, there will never be anything. This fire is suffering, voluntary suffering, without which it is impossible to create anything."
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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The discomfort isn't the problem. The automatic avoidance of discomfort is. Gurdjieff distinguished between mechanical suffering—the useless pain of identification with our wounds—and conscious suffering, which he saw as essential for transformation.
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Gurdjieff observed that humans live in a kind of waking sleep, moving mechanically through life without genuine consciousness. And crucially, he believed that only through friction—through the deliberate struggle between our automatic patterns and our conscious intention—could we actually wake up.
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As G. I. Gurdjieff put it:
"Thanks to this disease, 'tomorrow,' the three-brained beings there, particularly the contemporary ones, almost always put off 'until later' everything that needs to be done at the moment, being convinced that 'later' they will do better and more."
"Thanks to this disease, 'tomorrow,' the three-brained beings there, particularly the contemporary ones, almost always put off 'until later' everything that needs to be done at the moment, being convinced that 'later' they will do better and more."
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Or, when George Gurdjieff emphasizes self-knowledge, knowledge of how "man"'s machine works, as the means to govern yourself instead being a slave and plaything of forces you don't understand, again, if we follow Spare, automatism is the means of this, the dark Deep is its source.
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Learn to collect yourself. Choose a good moment that seems propitious. Sit down. Let nobody disturb you. Relax yourself. All your #attention, all your will, is concentrated on your #relaxation.
- #Gurdjieff
- #Gurdjieff
October 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Before all these worlds, ask yourself of your aims and hopes, of your intentions and means of fulfilling them, of the demands which may be put to you and of your preparedness to fulfill them."
- ‘ #Gurdjieff’ s Early Talks 1914-1931’
- ‘ #Gurdjieff’ s Early Talks 1914-1931’
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Look at the Milky Way, The earth cannot even be called a grain of sand in this infinity. It dissolves and vanishes, and with it - you. Where are you, what are you? What do you want, where do you intend to go? What are you undertaking and is it not madness what you want?
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October 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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“Go out one clear starlit night to some open space and look up at the sky, at those millions of worlds over your head. Remember that perhaps on each of them swarm milliards of beings, similar to you or perhaps superior to you, in their organization.
- G.I. #Gurdjieff
- G.I. #Gurdjieff
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#GURDJIEFF ( #DOTD 1949) ON THE MAGUS
“The highest aim of man is to be cunning. The magus is cunning. The magus is the highest that man can approach to God, because only he can be impartial and fulfill obligation to God. In old times the magus was always made chief because he had cunning.
“The highest aim of man is to be cunning. The magus is cunning. The magus is the highest that man can approach to God, because only he can be impartial and fulfill obligation to God. In old times the magus was always made chief because he had cunning.
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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SOURCES of Divine REJOICINGS, REVOLTS
and SUFFERINGS, direct your actions upon
#GURDJIEFF' S dead nearest, upon his followers
and all strivers and learners everywhere, upon my
friends, acquaintances and neighbours, upon my
dead nearest and upon myself.
and SUFFERINGS, direct your actions upon
#GURDJIEFF' S dead nearest, upon his followers
and all strivers and learners everywhere, upon my
friends, acquaintances and neighbours, upon my
dead nearest and upon myself.
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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#FRANKPINDER' S PRAYER FOR #GURDJIEFF ON THE OCCASION OF HIS DEATH
"In the name of GOD the FATHER, GOD the SON
and of GOD the HOLY GHOST, may the soul of
GURDJIEFF be perfected according to his merits.
"In the name of GOD the FATHER, GOD the SON
and of GOD the HOLY GHOST, may the soul of
GURDJIEFF be perfected according to his merits.
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Only such a sensation and such a cognizance can now destroy the egoism completely crystallized in them that has swallowed up the whole of their Essence, and also that tendency to hate others which flows from it.
~ G.I. #Gurdjieff (died on this day, 29th October, 1949)
~ G.I. #Gurdjieff (died on this day, 29th October, 1949)
October 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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"Every one of those unfortunates during the process of existence should constantly sense and be cognizant of the inevitability of his own death as well as of the death of everyone upon whom his eyes or attention rests.
~ G.I. #Gurdjieff (died on this day, 29th October, 1949)
~ G.I. #Gurdjieff (died on this day, 29th October, 1949)
October 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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"Bennett, Gurdjieff, Jesus..." IYKYK
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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RIP Armenian/French philosopher/monk George Gurdjieff, died 1949
"Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world."
"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free,...
"Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world."
"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free,...
October 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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AU REVOIR, TOUT LE MONDE!
"He who has freed himself of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance to attain what he came here for."
- Georgi Ivanovitch #Gurdjieff
January 13, 1872 – October 29, 1949
"He who has freed himself of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance to attain what he came here for."
- Georgi Ivanovitch #Gurdjieff
January 13, 1872 – October 29, 1949
October 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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"The majority of people live in a world of illusions, without knowing the true reality."
–Gurdjieff
–Gurdjieff
October 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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“Woman’s Dance” (comp. Gurdjieff / de Hartmann)
David Helbock - Piano
Julia Hofer - Cello, Electric Bass
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David Helbock - Piano
Julia Hofer - Cello, Electric Bass
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David Helbock & Julia Hofer: Woman’s Dance | Live from Reaktor
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October 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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According to real, exact knowledge, one force, or two forces, can never produce a phenomenon. The presence of a third force is necessary, for it is only with the help of a third force that the first two can produce what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere.
- #Gurdjieff
- #Gurdjieff
October 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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"…for it is only with the help of a third force that the first two can produce what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere."
(Gurdjieff in "In Search of the Miraculous" by P.D. Ouspensky)
(Gurdjieff in "In Search of the Miraculous" by P.D. Ouspensky)
October 28, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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This response to HamletMachine has me playing Stalin, disciples of Gurdjieff & Frank Lloyd Wright, Ramesh Balsekar, Aldous Huxley, Marcel Proust, Hamlet & Raskolnikov -all supporting roles to the women whose narratives drive our story.
Oh & it's dance/theater
#MOwHM
#MyObsessionwithHamletMachine
Oh & it's dance/theater
#MOwHM
#MyObsessionwithHamletMachine
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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On his death bed Gurdjieff said to his followers, who were awaiting his final words of wisdom, 'I leave you all in a fine mess!'
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Currently reading btw classes
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