On the Fragility of the Body
When an impression is strong enough it can create a shock that allows it to enter essence and higher centers automatically…
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The Fourth Way and Science
Gurdjieff and Ouspensky had an affinity for science. Gurdjieff was interested…
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We Always Make a Profit
When we take this principle of balancing the four lower centers to the scale of nations, business mirrors the instinctive center; government, the moving center; religion and myth, the emotional center; and the press and the arts, the intellectual center…
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On Grief
A couple of years ago two of my friends died within a short period of each other…
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The Parable of the Ten Virgins
Not long ago I had a toothache, and between the time when the tooth began to ache and the time when my dentist could see me, I had a few difficult days…
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On Good Fortune
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…
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Prayer as a Method of Inner Work
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…
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Snipers I Have Known
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…
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