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Meditations on Responsibility, Part III. More notes from March 3.
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Meditations on Responsibility, Part III. More notes from March 3.

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This question of responsibility is the greatest one we face, but we keep treating it like it is a small thing.

Gurdjieff emphasized duty: it’s well known that being-parktdolg-duty means, roughly put, “duty – duty – duty,” used in the sense of a debt owed. This is indeed the original meaning of the word. We owe a debt for our existence.

If we think we belo…

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