What do we get from the past, from our teachers? Just a lot of ideas & indications, possibilities & things that drive us onwards. It’s like Walt Whitman said:-

I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
I am a man who, hurrying along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
Leaving it to you to prove and define it,
Expecting the main things from you...

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There was a holy man sitting/meditating under the shade of a tamarind tree. Narada ( the one who informs the Absolute of the progress of his disciples - the faithful) was doing his rounds and got into a conversation with this Mahatma, who asked him to take a message to the Absolute.
When the answer came back in a few weeks time, when he was on his rounds again, Narada didn't want to tell the Mahatma. Narada said it would depress him very much if he was given the answer. The answer was that "as m… Continue

When I think about "my being attracts my life", what is it, that attracts life?
My thoughts about life? My feelings about me? Or a mixture of both?
But that's not being, as I understand it. Well, actually, I have no idea,
what being really is. So, how can I say, what it's not?

All I can say is, I'm not clear about this. I cannot describe being.
Do I have to? Maybe the question is just, how to stop thinking about being?

Sometimes, when listening to Gurdjieff music and reading maybe a touching
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The Fourth Way is a system presented by people who followed Gurdjieff, an extraordinary man. Generations later, this system is still being compiled by experimenters, believers, and seekers of truth. The Fourth Way, as it appears to be presented today, indicates if I do it right I will wake up, be enlightened, have peace, and obtain being of a higher level. I will know I am doing the Work if I am excelling at remembering myself, being super aware, being transparent and cooperative i… Continue