Monday 17 January 2011

To Know - To Understand - To Be

You have no business to believe me.
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself. . .
If you have not a critical mind, your visit here is useless.
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G.I. Gurdjieff

"To my mind, those who swallow the Gurdjievian cosmogony whole, and those who reject it out of hand, are equally wrong and, above all, equally superficial. Those who study Gurdjieff, alive or dead, without either fear or respect, are equally naïve. From such a man one takes and rejects, one is both wary and receptive. One struggles with him. To struggle with Gurdjieff (and not against him) is to understand him, to know him, and, in the end, to love him." Pierre Schaeffer, Paris, 1954
From The Old Man and His Movements.

Gurdjieff - A comprehensive reading guide with numerous links to his work

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