Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"You need a higher attention. But your higher attention is taken when you are negative. Begin to be interested that there are different qualities of attention… We need to have a scale." (John Pentland - "Exchanges Within," p.19) 010
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"…If one centre is tired, it does not participate in the work, and you will not obtain any real result. You have to work with all the centres.” (Gurdjieff - Paris Meetings, 1943, Thursday September 9) journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.com/p/harmonious...journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.com* Harmonious Concentration – Waking Up the Centres (cont’d)Better concentration in the morning – waking state dependent on prior sleep – cold water and gymnastics – imaginary fatigue – necessity for relaxaton or tension? – the hyper-suggestible state on wakin... 010
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026“The state of wakefulness depends on sleep… Try to understand what work of harmonious concentration is: you have to concentrate with all your centres…" 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"...it must be realized that the sleep in which man exists is not normal but hypnotic sleep. Man is hypnotized and this hypnotic state is continually maintained and strengthened in him." (Gurdjieff in "In Search of the Miraculous" - P.D. Ouspensky, p.219) 010
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026(Gurdjieff in "In Search of the Miraculous" - P.D. Ouspensky, p.217) journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.com/p/fragments-...journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.comFragments, Chapter 11, pp.217-222 - Reading Club posting 39"I AM often asked questions in connection with various texts, parables, and so on, from the Gospels," said G., on one occasion. "In my opinion the time has not yet come for us to speak about the Gospe... 000
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"… But from time to time we will take certain Gospel texts as points of departure for our discussions. This will teach you to treat them in the right way, and, above all, to realize that in the texts known to us the most essential points are usually missing." 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"I AM often asked questions in connection with various texts, parables, and so on, from the Gospels," said G., on one occasion. "In my opinion the time has not yet come for us to speak about the Gospels. This requires much more knowledge…" 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"...—lifting oneself out of them—not taking them as you—all this work on non-identifying with certain machines, certain 'I's, in the early morning, can alter the whole day." (Maurice Nicoll, Commentaries, Vol. I, p.138) 030
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"It is a very good thing, which is worth doing, to work on oneself in the early morning, before, as it were, descending into life and duty. A little conscious work at that time, noticing the small beginnings of worrying or negative thoughts or self-pity, etc., etc. and saying no to them..." 130
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"…Any manifestation of positive and negative electricity implies a fulcrum; i.e., a point of resistance over which they balance. Consciousness is an electrical phenomenon which arises from a state of being which we can feel." (C. Daly King - "The Oragean Version," p.262) 010
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Electricity: in our usual opinion there are two forms of it, positive and negative; but there is also a third form, viz., the field within which the positive and negative forms are related to each other…" 111
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026...He spoke of the necessity of being first a conscious egoist before one can really be a good altruist, and we can recall Orage’s description, “the disease of altruism.” ... journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.com/p/magnetism-...journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.comMagnetism and Love“To know about real love one must forget all about love and must look for direction...” - Gurdjieff 000
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Gurdjieff speaks of the divine impulse of genuine love in compelling terms in his writings, and yet also very witheringly about the degenerate forms that it has taken. Love is an evocative word, yet one that is prone to sentimentality... 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"…In order to be assimilated and transformed, impressions have to be received by essence. This requires a conscious effort at the moment of the impression." (Jeanne de Salzmann - "The Reality of Being," p.13) 010
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Ordinarily impressions are received in a mechanical way. They are received by our personality, which reacts with automatic thoughts and feelings that depend on its conditioning. We do not assimilate impressions because personality itself cannot be alive—it is dead…" 120
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.com/p/fragments-...journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.comFragments, Chapter 10, pp.204-211 - Reading Club posting 37At one of the following meetings, in the presence of G., when he made me repeat what he had said about the way and about magnetic center, I embodied his idea in the following diagram: 010
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"The broadening of consciousness does not proceed in one direction only, that is, in the direction of the higher cosmoses; in going above, at the same time it goes below. " (Gurdjieff speaking in "In Search of the Miraculous" by P.D. Ouspensky, p.207) 120
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"There is a movement of Presence, a passage, which I need to value. I see that when the attention of the head turns toward the body, the body also becomes attentive." (Jeanne de Salzmann - "The Reality of Being," p.194) 010
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky," p.453 journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.com/p/22-maurice...journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.com(22.) Maurice Nicoll, Vol.II - Non-Identifying - p.451-4"it was a very marvellous thing to experience a moment of not being identified..." 010
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"...One of the fundamental ideas of this teaching is that all mankind is asleep and this is why all these horrible things happen on the Earth. What is the real reason? The real reason is absence of Consciousness." (Maurice Nicoll) 130
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The object of this Work is to increase Consciousness. We do what we do because we are not properly conscious. We are the people mentioned in the Gospels who live in darkness..." 130
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Speaking in "In Search of the Miraculous" by P.D. Ouspensky, p.204) journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.com/p/fragments-...journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.comFragments, Chapter 10, pp.199-204 - Reading Club posting 36ONCE there was a meeting with a large number of people who had not been at our meetings before. One of them asked: "From what does the way start?" The person who asked the question had not heard G.'s ... 000
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"...no one can ascend onto a higher step until he places another man in his own place. What a man has received he must immediately give back; only then can he receive more. Otherwise from him will be taken even what he has already been given." (Gurdjieff) 101
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"A Study Of Gurdjieff’s Teaching," 1957, p.16. journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.com/p/leather-to...journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.comLeather to SellMaking new shoes. 130
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"...and not for dilettantes or exhibitionists who required it merely for display. The buyer would have to make something out of the leather he had bought, and nothing could be more serviceable than a strong pair of shoes for life’s difficult journey." (Kenneth Walker) 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"...the payment need not necessarily be in terms of money, but something had to have been sacrificed if the leather they had acquired was to be properly appreciated. Another important point...was that the leather was for those who intended to put it to a practical use..." 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"...He was a man who had ideas of an extraordinarily high quality to sell to those who required ideas of this kind. Moreover, he had used the word ‘sell’ deliberately because he always maintained that men never appreciated anything which they had not paid for..." 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Gurdjieff once said: ‘I have very good leather to sell to those who want to make shoes out of it’ …No better description than this could be given of Gurdjieff’s role as a teacher..." 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"…I see that all things have the same importance, and I accept failure as good for me. I begin again a thousand times. Everything depends on this seeing." (Jeanne de Salzmann - "The Reality of Being," p.41-2) 010
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"I learn to purify my power of seeing, not by dismissing what is undesirable or turning away and settling on the agreeable. I learn to see everything without refusing the details. I learn to see clearly…" 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"…in order to become receptive to the higher matters or influences he has to produce in himself sufficient corresponding hydrogens to set his higher centres working." (Ouspensky - The Fourth Way, p.232) 010
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Who are you, Monsieur Gurdjieff?" (Tr. Jenny Koralek), p.16-7 010
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"[Gurdjieff] Always do only one thing at a time, that of the present moment. But do it well, be in it entirely. Man is always doing seven things at once; if he does as I say, even for one little thing, the other six will look after themselves." (René Zuber) 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. This is the mystery." (Katherine Mansfield) From a piece under the title "Suffering," 19-12-1920, in "Journal of Katherine Mansfield," Alfred A. Knopf (New York), 1927, p.167. 032
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.com/p/fragments-...journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.comFragments, Chapter 9, pp.193-198 - Reading Club posting 35"When the 'table of hydrogens' has been sufficiently understood, it shows immediately many new features in the work of the human machine, establishing clearly before anything else the reasons for the ... 020
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"…not to waste this energy on unnecessary functions, and to save it for that activity which will gradually connect the lower centers with the higher." (Gurdjieff in "In Search of the MIraculous" by P.D. Ouspensky, p.196) 120
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"In order to regulate and balance the work of the three centers whose functions constitute our life, it is necessary to learn to economize the energy produced by our organism…" 120
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"…A man of such one-sided development has more desires in a given sphere, desires he cannot satisfy and at the same time cannot renounce. Life becomes miserable for him. For this state of fruitless, half-satisfied desires I can find no more suitable word than onanism." (Gurdjieff) 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"… In short, a man in whom only two of the three machines are developed cannot be called a man…." 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"… The same applies to a man with a developed essence or a man with developed muscles. Nor can he be called a complete man in whom a more or less developed personality is combined with a developed body, while his essence remains totally undeveloped…" 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"…If a man possesses knowledge and even knows all he must do, this knowledge is useless and can even do harm. All of you are deformed. If only personality is developed it is deformity; such a man can in no way be called a complete man—he is a quarter, a third of a man…" 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"In each of those present here one of his inner machines is more developed than the others. There is no connection between them. Only he can be called a man without quotation marks in whom all three machines are developed. A one-sided development is only harmful…" 110
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.com/p/keeping-th...journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.comKeeping the Work Warm"If one ceases to keep the Work warm and viable in oneself, if one lets it get cold too long, punishment comes. It takes the form of a cessation of meaning, of a deadness inside." (Maurice Nicoll) 000
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"If one ceases to keep the Work warm and viable in oneself, if one lets it get cold too long, punishment comes. It takes the form of a cessation of meaning, of a deadness inside." (Maurice Nicoll - "Commentaries on the Psychological Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky," Vol. V, p.1637.) 100
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"...for when all is defined and determined it is lost, or leaves only a shallow impression on him who hears or uses the definitions." (F.S. Pinder in "Teachings of Gurdjieff," by C.S. Nott, p.228) 000
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Gurdjieff spoke and wrote in a picture-form of speech, symbolical language, which is necessary for understanding, because words, being counters or characters of account, result in definitions, and definitions eventually freeze language..." 100
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"...we can observe something in ourselves that had been hidden in darkness." (Orage in "Teachings of Gurdjieff," by C.S. Nott, p.146) 000
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Heat and light are the remorse of matter. When we are in a state of self-remembering, elements in our body experience remorse, not a feeling of inferiority but a kind of sorrow for what we are, combined with aspiration, and a light dawns on us..." 100
Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Be aware of yourself in as many different ways as possible at the same time, at all times. Be especially aware during times of emotional and intellectual activity, always observing the physical changes." (A.R. Orage in "Gurdjieff's Emissary in New York," p.437) 001