Photo: A selfie of the famous Flaubert and I, on the Hudson river at West 36th street in Manhattan, March 22 2023. The view is southwards.
Flaubert is pondering philosophical matters regarding the Terror of the Situation for a small dog in a backpack in Manhattan.
The Gurdjieff practice makes much of self-remembering; yet I can’t recall the time—any time—in which I’ve heard Love-remembering mentioned.
What are we if we forget Love? If we are already nothing as we are, without Love we become even less than nothing. To be nothing of itself is something; but to be nothing and not have Love is to cease to be at all. All being emerges through and from Love.
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