New York
Wednesday February 29
need of one particular exercise
"Internally one should be free from considering, but externally one should do more than one has been doing so far. An ordinary man lives as he is dictated to from inside.
When we speak of change, we presume the need of inner change. Externally if everything is all right, there is no need to change. If it is not all right, perhaps there is no need to change either, because maybe it is original. What is necessary is to change inside.
As things are now, especially in our times, every man considers utterly mechanically. We react to everything affecting us from outside. Now we obey orders. She is good, and I am good; she is bad, and I am bad. I am as she wants me to be, I am a puppet. But she too is a mechanical puppet. She also obeys orders mechanically and does what another one wants. We must cease reacting inside. If someone is rude, we must not react inside. Whoever manages to do this will be more free. It is very difficult."
G.I. Gurdjieff
The Compass Cultural Association organizes and supports cultural and
educational events concerning the harmonious development of mankind.
What do we mean by harmonious development?
The possibility of having an aim is what makes the difference between an
ordinary person and those people who have felt the urge to locate themselves,
to escape from those daily prisons which constantly impoverish them without
giving them direction.
It is hence essential, once the goal has been identified, to determine a route
and the vehicle with which to undertake the journey of harmonious development.
To learn more about a oriented towards our harmonious development, the art and science of living in the present and working with a precise method, we invite you to visit our pages, and find the
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