Ouspensky

Image — alchetron.com Human beings love to control other human beings and there’s no arguing with this — it’s what we do, it’s our number one preoccupation. We don’t want to admit it but this is how it is. Controlling each other is ‘the name of the game’, it’s what…

The first practical step in any esoteric doctrine (and this is one), is to know the doctrine, to know the ideas, the teachings. If it were Christianity, to know the tenets of, as it were, Christianity. It is the same with Gurdjieff’s teachings. Perhaps I should say that everything you…

Today I’m having a crisis of writing. The one where I ask myself why I bother. I get this pretty regularly and have learned to recognize it as a stage I’ll get through. Yes, but knowing that does me no good right at the moment. This one happens comes after…