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