Part One The next question came from Olga. She introduced her observation by saying: “Gurdjieff said to aim to have a quarter of our attention on the task, and the […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
George Adie against Hopelessness (Wednesday 2 November 1988, Pt I)
This is from the meeting at Newport of Wednesday 2 November 1988. The first question was from an elderly woman who was in pain, but could not take analgesics, as […]
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Dying Daily, Pt III (Orage’s Conclusion)
Orage continues: “… the review before death, as reported by survivors, is never censorious or didactic, nor is it a subject for either thought or feeling. Strangely enough, the review […]
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Dying Daily, Pt II (Orage’s Opening Thoughts)
Orage’s essay “On Dying Daily” is what, in my forthcoming study, I call a “discipline”. I think it is helpful to have employ terms than just “exercise”, so I speak […]
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Dying Daily, Pt I (Iamblichus and Jane Heap)
Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1934) was a very important figure in the development of the Gurdjieff teaching. I mean that quite literally. He did not merely help Gurdjieff by teaching the […]
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Small, Simple Beginnings
Not so very long ago, a few of us read this passage from Tchekhovitch; that led to one thing, and that led to something else. First, Tchekhovitch: “If a new […]
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George Adie on the Morning Preparation (Wednesday 2 November 1988, Pt I)
“My immediate difficulty seems to be in the preparation in the morning,” said Gill. “What it comes back to is not starting the day in the right way. There’s not […]
Read more13 January 1989: George Adie on the Preparation and on Purgatory
This is prepared, well in advance, for 13 January, celebrated as Gurdjieff’s birthday. The very fact that he wanted it celebrated on the first day of the Old Calendar is […]
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Irreducibly Individual
I wonder if we do not all have this as part of our history: a feeling that we are inadequate? That we would have been better as someone else? That, […]
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“I AM” Is Practical (George Adie, 7 October 1986, Pt I)
These are the first two questions from Tuesday 7 October 1986. Amy said that she wants to have a more positive relationship with her immediate family, and is having trouble making […]
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