Wednesday, January 29, 2020

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"

Monday, January 20, 2020

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

Monday, January 6, 2020

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"