Gurdjieff Group of London, Ontario

"To be learned, to see and love things as they are, one must be oneself, and love to see oneself as one is. One must have broken the deceiving mirrors, one must have slain with a pitiless look the insinuating phantoms." -Rene Daumal, The Holy War

The Gurdjieff Group of London Ontario would like to announce a rare screening of "The Seekers of Truth." Please join us March 12, 2020 at 7:30 pm at Museum London. The event is free of charge with an RSVP through [email protected]. For more information please visit:... www.londongurdjieffgroup.ca Location: Museum London 421 Ridout Street North London, ON N6A 5H4 (519) 661-0333

First of all, for every parent, a question needs to be put on the table. You and your wife have children. That creates special obligations for you. It is the end of your living for yourselves. You are obliged, in your daily life, to sacrifice everything for your children. As of now, you and your wife must set yourselves the common aim of living for your children. Nothing must hinder your mutual relationship. You must have an aim, a common aim, and this common aim will bring ...about contact between the two of you for the work because it is an objective aim, and work is also objective. Begin this way: speak with your wife; together, take it as an aim to sacrifice everything for your children-not forever, but for a certain time. Everything for your children. You will have this aim in common and in your personal relationship there will be a struggle. Because, if you both agree to this as an aim, it will be with the head, and since your characters are different, each of you will have to sustain an inner struggle. Whoever attains this aim will have passed the test and then can receive another objective means. Meanwhile, speak about this calmly and frankly with your wife and set yourselves this aim. - G.I. Gurdjieff, Paris Meetings 1943 See more

"How to be touched? One can be deeply touched by contact with someone who has begun to develop this in himself. Or special events can happen in life - a great happiness, a great sorrow, an impression of nature, of sacred art of the past - that can give an extraordinary feeling of much more life in us, much finer, much broader, as if the horizon were opening. It gives us a taste that life should always be like that. It doesn't happen often and it comes through events outside o...f us. But the longing for it is always there. For we are speaking of a human need - the need that makes us alive. To feel it is to feel that it is true and must be searched for. A real search is a preparation for an opening to the taste of that life. Gaining knowledge of everything that opposes it is the first step on the path." -Pauline de Dampierre, Leaning on the Moment See more

Mr. Gurdjieff used to say that one must be burning from sheer force of finding oneself faced with the most personal questions, the ones which hurt and which remain without answer, disregarding discouragement and holding in oneself the conviction that one is here for something: to find again the real meaning of one’s own existence and to try to live in accord with it. - Henri Tracol, The Taste For Things That Are True.