82(a). “(Man) remains, to use a phrase of the Work, an unfinished house.” (1020, 19 April 1947, 257th commentary) This is probably from Gurdjieff. It is interesting because we are […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Gurdjieff in Nicoll’s Commentaries (Part IX)
79. There is an enigmatic statement which may be from Gurdjieff. In context, Nicoll says “In this space, in this psychological or spiritual world, there are definite places where it […]
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Relaxing and Decontracting in the Gurdjieff System
The Pocket Oxford Dictionary tells us that to relax is to “cause or allow to become loose or slack or limp … grow less tense or rigid or stern or ceremonious or […]
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“One I Meditates; That’s Not Good” 14 June 1983
At a group meeting on Tuesday 14 June 1983, there was what I count as a most remarkable comment by Mr Adie in response to what seemed to me to […]
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Francois Grunwald, “A Path out of Exile: With Gurdjieff in Post-War Paris”
Francois Grunwald, A Path out of Exile: With Gurdjieff in Post-War Paris, Red Elixir, 2025 This is a significant book for anyone interested in Gurdjieff, his system, and Western Esotericism. Such […]
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Maurice Nicoll, “Living Time”
I wish to suggest that the chief idea of Maurice Nicoll’s Living Time (first published in 1952, but completed earlier) may be not time, but rather that by a certain change in […]
Read moreA New Volume of Gurdjieff Studies
Volume 35, number 2, of Literature & Aesthetics, has been published. Although it has only now appeared (February 2026) it is dated 2025. It is the Journal of the Sydney Society of […]
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Gurdjieff in Nicoll’s Commentaries (Part VIII)
Nicoll does not directly attribute this to Gurdjieff, but I am fairly sure it is from either Gurdjieff or Ouspensky: “… the Work says that understanding is the strongest force […]
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Draining – Tzvarnoharno, Dr Nicoll and Willem Nyland
Part One First, this is from vol. 3 of Maurice Nicoll’s Psychological Commentaries: “Now in ordinary seen life, where people, even religious people, do not practically work on themselves each […]
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Gurdjieff in Nicoll’s Commentaries (Part VII)
volume 3 of the Psychological Commentaries G. once said: “You are all different kinds of machines—some are typewriters, some are sewing-machines, some are mincing-machines, and so on.” (780, 22 September […]
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