Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff: Lee's Gurdjieff Newsletter

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May 02, 2022
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Notes from November 10, 2021

What I want is different than what it is.

This is clear enough, because what I wish for is different than what is. What I wish for isn’t here and hasn’t manifested; it’s an aspiration, it’s of the future. 

So what I wish for can’t be what is now; the very idea is in fact contradictory.

Yet this work, this inner work that I’m att…

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