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On Good Fortune

Posted by williampage | | Conscious Evolution, Essays, Happiness, Self-Remembering |

The only way we can have a guarantee of good fortune is to find a way of thinking and living that transforms events that we now think of as bad fortune into events that we can consider good fortune…

Prayer as a Method of Inner Work

Posted by williampage | | Esotericism, Essays, Self-Remembering |

Before I can begin to talk about prayer and how it relates to inner work, I am going to have to speak about a few misconceptions…

Snipers I Have Known

Posted by williampage | | Being Present, Essays, Gurdjieff, Transformation |

For a time in my youth I thought I might become an artist and was part of an art guild that was run by a man who had been recruited by the army as a sniper during the Korean War…

That We Can Practice for the Moment of Our Death

Posted by williampage | | Being Present, Conscious Evolution, Essays, Self-Remembering |

When I was just beginning to explore the difficulties and possibilities of self-remembering—I believe I was twenty at the time—I discovered a fundamental truth about the practice of self-remembering that has stayed with ever since…

Emotions

Posted by williampage | | Essays, Other People, Transformation |

Once in my role as a counselor at the psychiatric clinic where I worked as a young man, I spent an afternoon talking to a new mother…

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