The Welcoming Prayer Gently become aware of your body andyour interior state. Welcome, welcome, welcome.I welcome everything that comes to me in this momentbecause I know it is for my healing.I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions,persons, situations and conditions.I let go of my desire for security.I let go of my desire for approval.I let go […]
From Boyhood With Gurdjieff by Fritz Peters: “He (Gurdjieff) said that there were various important exercises having to do with ‘self-remembering’ which was a very important aspect of his work. One of them was to conscientiously and with all one’s concentration, try to remember, as on a movie film, everything that one had done during
This series of short and simple advice represents the basic principles for anybody who seeks mental peace. After traveling through Africa and Asia, G.I. Gurdjieff arrived in Russia in the year 1912, bringing with him teachings that were neither a religion nor a philosophy, but practical lessons that had to be experienced. And since this
Playfulness, Light-Heartedness, recognizing the fundamental goodness in human beings…a fundamental practice for opening the heart, and the intuition. Grateful for the beauty and heart of human beings…
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“We have a mind-condition that makes us itch for two types of pleasure: pleasure of the senses and pleasure of the ego. When our senses are pleasantly stimulated, as when we eat something tasty, or our ego is pleasantly stimulated, as when we are praised for something we did, we feel joy, which is good.
Loving-kindness and MeditationPema Chodron “When we start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline, we often think that somehow we’re going to improve, which is a subtle aggression against who we really are. It’s a bit like saying, “If I jog, I’ll be a much better person.” “If I had a
