#pierre elliot

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"The ability to perceive the relationship of our own personal existence to the greater needs of the world to which we belong is called by Gurdjieff the 'Sacred Impulse of Divine Conscience', and I have no doubt that a right understanding of the rôle of Conscience in human life will be the master-idea that will regenerate the spiritual existence of mankind."

~ J.G.Bennett, Preface to "The Crisis in Human Affairs" (1946)

“When one is still and listens, one begins to be in touch with a mysterious element that is within each of us, which can transform and shape us and can help to transform the world.”

~ William Segal

"As a wise orthodox put it, we have to make a volitional response to a divine initiative."

~ Pierre Elliot

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

You Must Start With Yes :: Milton Rogovin (United States, born 1909) - storefront churches, 1958-60

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"The ability to perceive the relationship of our own personal existence to the greater needs of the world to which we belong is called by Gurdjieff the 'Sacred Impulse of Divine Conscience', and I have no doubt that a right understanding of the rôle of Conscience in human life will be the master-idea that will regenerate the spiritual existence of mankind."

~ J.G.Bennett, Preface to "The Crisis in Human Affairs" (1946)

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“When one is still and listens, one begins to be in touch with a mysterious element that is within each of us, which can transform and shape us and can help to transform the world.”

~ William Segal

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"As a wise orthodox put it, we have to make a volitional response to a divine initiative."

~ Pierre Elliot

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"In essence it can be put this way: It is not sufficient to utter prayers, we must become prayers. We must offer not what we have but what we are. That is what communities, what humanity, what the world needs above all else: not people who say prayers with greater or less fervour and regularity, but people who are and live prayer."

~ Pierre Elliot

[h/t Ian Sanders]

[gensdezabulon]

Pierre Elliot & Romain Poli, in Utopies.

See the movie here : https://youtu.be/NW2wdSt7IPg

[julialeeyoga]

the work, our work, requires that we should be present. to be present we have to be free from such obstacles as identification, losing ourselves in what we are engaged in. to be present, we have to be relaxed and this brings us to the world of tensions. tensions are not something inert, passive, just slowing up our development. we have to observe how that they arise. we have to observe that they arise in us from that which is hostile to the work. they represent in us a great force, our denying force. it is the center of egoism in us which defends itself by means of tensions. it is essential that there should develop in us an active side which sees and experiences the need to relax. once again, we need to observe, observe our inner gestures of refusal, our clutching at whatever we are lost in. by relaxation we can become free. the way is clear. we need to learn to make a gesture of relaxation and to learn to renew it.

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