Essence is inner, Personality is outer. Essence is eternal, Personality is temporal. This is key in the Gurdjieff Work.
“Mechanical goodness is useless in the Work, but conscious, active goodness gives you force.” Maurice Nicoll Goodness as Transformation "If you come back to Jacob Boehme's statement and his insight, his jaw-dropping insight—that goodness, fundamental goodness, that...
"When you begin to unknow what you were sure you knew, you are undergoing a change of mental outlook, you are undergoing a change of mind, you are undergoing metanoia." Maurice Nicoll Definition of Metanoia "Meta indicates transference, or transformation, or...
Spiritual intuition results from the intimate and profound alliance of intelligence and spontaneous wisdom. “Time, all our times, are contained in something bigger—a space. The fullness of time becomes space, a vast, gentle wideness in which all possible outcomes, all...
“Wholeness means the integration of the masculine and feminine within you so that you transcend and embrace the opposites." Cynthia Bourgeault “When you realize that the two are one, and that each of us in our own minute particularity is living the archetypal story,...
Balanced spiritual awareness through attention in the intellect, the emotions, and body sensation. “The foundation of my own understanding of Wisdom and Wisdom work is that it's not knowing more, it's knowing with more of you, more of your being engaged. That means...
The parable of the prodigal son is not about a young man who squanders his fortune. The Parable of the Prodigal Son: "There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father," `Father, give me the share of the property that comes to me.' "So he...
Finding a center of gravity within: how to know your True Self, or Essence. “The center of gravity is the seat of unity.” Jeanne de Salzmann, The Reality of Being, p130 “By the force of my attention actively turned inward, the movement of energy changes. Instead...
A key to inner transformation is work on Essence and Personality. I had dreams last night, “Groundhog Day” dreams of recurring events and the sense that so much of life in this realm is about keeping the flow of time intact and predictable. Our global socio-economic...