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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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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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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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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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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44. “On one occasion Mr. G. said, in so many words, in speaking of the First Conscious Shock: “Man should remember himself and he was born to do so. If […]

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38. It is extraordinary how many variations there are in Nicoll’s recollection of this one short saying. “On one occasion G., speaking of Self-Remembering, said: “Which self do you wish […]

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The Incarnation of Christ can be a powerful reminder of this critical question: is my head with my body? That is only the start of our questioning, but, my word, […]

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“G. once said that “symbolism should act as a shock to our knowledge,” and spoke of four kinds – Hebrew, Egyptian, Persian, and Hindu.” (475, 15 July 1944, 116th commentary) […]

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