The Teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff

"Self-Observation & Self-Remembering" 

 

Wednesday, March 11 · 6:30 - 7:30 PM  

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
  2nd Floor, Meeting Room 1
  130 Whitfield Street
  Pittsburgh, PA 15206 

We will continue to hold Wednesday meetings, at the same time and location,

through the end of March.

"Self-observation is very difficult.  The more you try, the more clearly you will see this.  At present you should practice it not for results but to understand that you cannot observe yourselves.  In the past you imagined that you saw and knew yourselves.  I am speaking of objective self-observation. ... If you simply realize you cannot, it will be right.  To come to it is your aim."

                                                              -  Gurdjieff, from Views from the Real World

The Teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff

"Essence, Personality and Self-Development" 

 

Wednesday, March 4 · 6:30 - 7:30 PM  

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
  2nd Floor, Meeting Room 3
  130 Whitfield Street
  Pittsburgh, PA 15206 

We will continue to hold Wednesday meetings, at the same time and location,

through the end of March.

"…we are divided into two parts. One part is what we are born with; it contains the seed of the qualities rightfully belonging to us…. We shall call it our “essence”. The other part is what we have acquired – all our knowledge and most of what attracts us, most of our behavior.

Personality develops as a result of external circumstances (place, time and environment) and it depends entirely on them.

Both are necessary for life; and if a man wants to know himself, to know “his life,” he must first become able to differentiate between them in himself."

                                                              -  Jean Vaysse, from Toward Awakening

The Teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff

"Self-Observation" 

Monday, February 17 · 6:30 - 7:30 PM  

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
  2nd Floor, Meeting Room 2
  130 Whitfield Street
  Pittsburgh, PA 15206 

We will continue to hold Monday meetings, at the same time and location,

through the end of March, except for Monday, February 24.

"This need for something to be changed in us is certainly the first observation of ourselves offered by the exigencies of life; sometimes abruptly or brutally and sometimes more gradually as a result of a need, a question or an inner demand.  A man's whole wish for a future evolution and the strength of his commitment to it often depend on the quality, the intensity and the force of this observation."

                                                              -  Jean Vaysse, from Toward Awakening

A Series of Discussions:

The Teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff

"What is the Role of Language in the Search for Being" 

Monday, February 10 · 6:30 - 7:30 PM  

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
  2nd Floor, Meeting Room 2
  130 Whitfield Street
  Pittsburgh, PA 15206 

We will continue to hold Monday meetings, at the same time and location,

through the end of March, except for Monday, February 24.

"And you know, don't you, that the talks of my dear grandfather always bring out tales of places where he has been, and you know also how delightfully he tells them and how much new and interesting information becomes crystallized in our presences from these tales."

                                                                -- Gurdjieff, from All and Everything

A Series of Discussions:

The Teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff

"Sleep and Awakening"

Monday, February 3 · 6:30 - 7:30 PM  

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
  2nd Floor, Meeting Room 2
  130 Whitfield Street
  Pittsburgh, PA 15206 

We will continue to hold Monday meetings, at the same time and location,

through the end of March, except for Monday, February 24.

"No matter; this secret call is still alive, prompting him from within to try, and to try increasingly, to realize the significance of his presence here on earth.  For he is here to awake, to remember, and to search, again and still again."

                                              Henri Tracol, from "Without Sleep, No Awakening"

A Series of Discussions:

The Teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff

"Sleep"

Monday, January 27 · 6:30 - 7:30 PM  

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
  2nd Floor, Meeting Room 1
  130 Whitfield Street
  Pittsburgh, PA 15206 

We will continue to hold Monday meetings, at the same time and location,

through the end of March, except for Monday, February 24.

"A modern man lives in sleep, in sleep he is born and in sleep he dies.  About sleep, its significance and its role in life, we will speak later.  But at present just think of one thing, what knowledge can a sleeping man have?  And if you think about it and at the same time remember that sleep is the chief feature of our being, it will at once become clear to you that if a man really wants knowledge, he must first of all think about how to wake, that is, about how to change his being."

                                                           -- Gurdjieff, from In Search of the Miraculous

A Series of Discussions:
The Teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff

                 "The Wish to Work" 

Wednesday, January 8 · 6:30 PM  

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
  2nd Floor, Meeting Room 1
  130 Whitfield Street
  Pittsburgh, PA 15206 

Our next meeting will be on Monday, January 27, same location.

"Working on oneself is not so difficult as wishing to work, taking the decision.  This is so because our centers have to agree among themselves, having realized that, if they are to do anything together, they have to submit to a common master.  But it is difficult for them to agree because once there is a master, it will no longer be possible for any of them to order the others about and to do what they like.  There is no master in ordinary man."

                                                                                -- Gurdjieff

                                                                                     from "Views From the Real World"