#A.R.Orage
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"Personality - We have a saying, 'He stands in his own light' He can't see his real self because of his personality."
~ Kathryn Hulme
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"Ordinary man is at the mercy of his organism - at the mercy of the instinctive centre; impressions received by the senses, of appetites, inertia, disease - at the mercy of the feelings; associations connected with people and places past and present, likes and dislikes, fear and anxiety - at the mercy of the mind; imagination, day-dreaming, suggestibility."
~ A.R. Orage
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Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest
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Eclipse over Stonehenge
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"Before birth the embryo repeats physiologically the history of the species; after birth, according to Gurdjieff, we repeat the history of the planet; two centres are split off, objective conscience sinks, deserts appear, emotional deserts".
~ A.R. Orage
[h/t Ian Sanders]
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Flowers in Green Vase with Handles by Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916)
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"Personality - We have a saying, 'He stands in his own light' He can't see his real self because of his personality."
~ Kathryn Hulme
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"Ordinary man is at the mercy of his organism - at the mercy of the instinctive centre; impressions received by the senses, of appetites, inertia, disease - at the mercy of the feelings; associations connected with people and places past and present, likes and dislikes, fear and anxiety - at the mercy of the mind; imagination, day-dreaming, suggestibility."
~ A.R. Orage
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Monument Valley at dusk
It's always a challenge to get a new perspective on a place so many other photographers captured so well and in so many different ways.
I'm not sure I've done so, but I'm pretty happy with this shot anyway.
[Jim Wright]
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"Before birth the embryo repeats physiologically the history of the species; after birth, according to Gurdjieff, we repeat the history of the planet; two centres are split off, objective conscience sinks, deserts appear, emotional deserts".
~ A.R. Orage
[h/t Ian Sanders]
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[from my photo files :: brooklyn bridge in rearview]
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“Gurdjieff was decisive, that his school was a school of individuation, and that a man must find his own work in life. How should he know it, how choose it? That, no one else could tell him. There were certain laws about it, however —three in particular.
The goal of achievement which a man decides to aim at must be such that it involves no violation of moral norms.
Secondly, he must get something for himself out of it—whether it be money, health and happiness, or honour; genuine profit must accrue to himself.
Thirdly, the task he assumes must be neither too big for him, nor too small. If it be too big, he will incur failure, compensated by megalomania; if too small, his powers will decline even with success and his career will be embittered.
But provided these three conditions be fulfilled, it does not matter what any one thinks of a man’s work. All that is necessary is that it should fit him; and that it should be his true desire—if you like, his whim—to do it. For example, to have the best stamp-collection in the world would not appear to many people to be a life ambition of the highest dignity—and perhaps it is not.
But it is a job of a man’s size: and if it is your real whim, you had better live for it. Whether you succeed is, of course, another matter.
"Whilst they were talking in this vein, someone asked Gurdjieff if he would disclose his own ‘whim,’ and he said it was to live and teach so that there should be a new conception of God in the world, a change in the very meaning of the word.”
~ Philip Mairet, :: 'A.R. Orage: A Memoir'
[Thanks again Ian Sanders]
#brooklyn bridge#purposes#Ian Sanders#Gurdjieff#Philip Mairet#A.R.Orage#A Memoir#school of life#life itself#life work
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