‘Freedom is taken, never given’, says Gurdjieff. If there is one who controls us, rules us, regulates us, then no matter how long we wait, no matter how well we behave, no matter how compliant we are, we are never...
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We can't solve neurotic self-contradiction on the level at which the results of this self-contradiction are being experienced. That is a hierarchy of events no one can untangle! Furthermore, we experience the pain of neurotic self-contradiction without being aware that...
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Whenever a bunch of people get together and agree between themselves what life is or ought to be then this is where life ends, this is where life ceases. Instead, there's only conformity to the established order, there is only...
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The ego exists within a false world which it itself creates via an act of ongoing selective attention; we pay attention only to those aspects of the world that match our unacknowledged prejudices, in other words. Anything that doesn't fit...
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