Philosopher, mystic, and writer (c. 1866–1877 – 1949)
A mystic who taught that most people sleepwalk through existence — literally unconscious of themselves — and built a method for waking up. His "Fourth Way" still commands study groups worldwide, decades after his death.
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born sometime between 1866 and 1877 and spent his life insisting that human beings live in a trance. As a philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer, he developed techniques — including a discipline of sacred movements — meant to jolt students into a higher state of consciousness and reconnect them with their actual purpose. His student P. D. Ouspensky systematized the approach as the "Fourth Way." When Gurdjieff died in October 1949, his close pupil Jeanne de Salzmann took the lead, founding the Gurdjieff Foundation in Paris and guiding it until 1990; her son…
Sourced, dated quotes from George Gurdjieff
It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way. This means that it is no use troubling oneself how to recognize a wrong way.
A man can keep silence in such a ways that no one will even notice it. The whole point is that we say a good deal too much.
Man such as we know him, is a machine.
In speaking of evolution it is necessary to understand from the outset that no mechanical evolution is possible. The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness.
One of man’s important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I.
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