Like many of these 'new movements' of so-called consciousness-raising, it's become part of the general societal sleep. A kind of inversion of values is going on in the name of the usual catchalls of 'freedom', 'justice' and the like."
- #JohnSinclair ( #LordPentland)
#LORDPENTLAND: 'A KIND OF INVERSION OF VALUES IS GOING ON'
"We are not engaged in a psychological exercise here. The contents of one's life are of no interest to us. We don’t realize how much we have been conditioned by ordinary psychology.
We have this incurable weakness for thinking about inner values on much too small a scale, giving up too soon & paying too little. #Ouspensky called this inner search for reality a search for the miraculous. We always forget that what we are looking for is a miracle.
- #JohnSinclair, #LordPentland
The point is, the head, which takes in ideas, and the feeling, which takes in scale, can never meet. Sensation is the relating element. How to feel what you think or to think what you feel is through sensation.
- #LordPentland, #Gurdjieff -ian
Lord Pentland and Gurdjieff
The greatest danger in a teaching is that it's turned entirely into an imaginary force for ascending instead of being a teaching for putting everything in its right place.
- #LordPentland, December 11, 1983
There is a force from very far away in the universe which draws the parts together towards the higher, a movement which we call evolution. And there is that opposite force, which comes down from the highest and allows the parts to move apart.
- #LordPentland, Wagner College, NY, 1983
The mind is the last to know.
- #LordPentland
Some people hear about the lower centers and that makes them believe that they understand and know what lower centers are.
What they don't understand is that those lower centers are way much higher than the state of normal habitual life of a human being.
- #LordPentland
Everything always falls apart in August and if we were smart we would just let it.
- Henry John Sinclair, #LordPentland, #Gurdjieff -ian
The movement of #consciousness is #magic. Life is magic, would you agree? You can’t understand life, it is the miraculous. The point is, this magic is going on now & in order to experience it I have to have a very open muscle structure, an attention that contains all my energy.
- #LordPentland
I don’t have a strong enough will to carry out the instructions I do receive within myself; I know that I need to call somebody or get up early, but I don’t always do it. It seems I need a companion."
- #LordPentland, #Gurdjieff-ian www.gurdjieff.org/pentland5.htm
