The World Offers Itself to You Vernon Howard, The Power of Your Supermind Let's connect natural awareness with chronic feelings of tiredness, a common complaint of physically healthy people. To do this we must frankly glance at a vital teaching of...
Commentary on Increase of Consciousness (by Maurice Nicoll from The Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky) According to the teaching of this Work we are at the second level of consciousness, designated the so-called Waking State in...
Return to Basic Inner-life Exercises As you gain more and more knowledge about yourself and. therefore, what’s really going on out in the world, you find yourself turning to very basic exercises. Why? Because of the inner gold that is hidden within. Here’s...
Great is the day when we are faced with a crisis we cannot avoid . This can bring us to a new understanding we would never have had by staying in our comfortable ways. The good news is, we don’t have to wait for a big crisis to see the truth about ourselves. We can...
*** Qualify Yourself from Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge by Vernon Howard The need to 'let go' is so fundamental to the inner adventure you should remind yourself of it often. Just realize the necessity of abandoning whatever does no good,...
Whenever I read Mr Gurdjieff's writing, the mind is exceedingly challenged to seek a higher level of understanding. It is capable... just out of practice. We find a strange sort of comfort and sleep in what we 'know' and 'understand'. To awaken that...
The following excerpt is from Vernon Howard's amazing book of practical formulas for inner enlightenment, There is a Way Out: Vital Information About the Way Out 1. Remain in the center of these wealthy teachings. 2. Truth solves all human...
SOME NOTES ON PRACTICAL WORK by Maurice Nicoll from Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky One of the first things we have to understand in working on our- selves is that we have three centres—Intellectual, Emotional and Physical. These...
The Light Cannot Be Given to You By Another ~ J. Krishnamurti, The Collected Works, Choiceless Awareness Most people, when they are confused, disturbed, want to return to the past; they seek to revive the old religion, to re-establish the ancient customs, to...
The following excerpt is from All and Everything by GI Gurdjieff. Though the style of writing by Mr Gurdjieff requires unbending attention to comprehend, it is well worth the effort. As defined here, Man was created and so differs from the rest of the...