by stuartgoodnick | Sep 26, 2020 | Aphorisms, Advice, Proverbs, Postings by Stuart Goodnick, Work Ideas
When the airliners crashed into the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, America went into shock. For a brief few days, we did not need to drive our SUVs so much, we did not rush to pack the kids off to Disney World for a distracting weekend, we did not need to fill...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 12, 2019 | Work Ideas
The Work offers the idea that the human being can be viewed as having three controlling functions or brains: The intellect which resides in the head, the moving-instinctive brain which resides in the spine and the emotional brain which is centered in the solar plexus,...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 10, 2019 | Work Ideas
He who knows what his moon is and does can understand the cosmos. ~ Gurdjieff Gurdjieff told the Eastern parable of The Magician. It is this: There was a very rich magician who kept many sheep, so that he could shear them for wool and kill them for mutton. The...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 9, 2019 | Work Ideas
“The highest limit of human achievement is to be able to do.” ~ Gurdjieff In the Work it is asserted that man is mechanical, that he is a machine rather than the master of himself. In fact, it is stated that “mechanicality” is the general state of humanity....
by Robin Bloor | Jul 9, 2019 | Work Ideas
The following text comes from the notes taken at a lecture by Gurdjieff given in New York on 6th February 1931. There are two parts to air, evolving and involving. Involving part only, gives vivifyingness to “I.” Only enough of this part is taken now for the...
