Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff: Lee's Gurdjieff Newsletter

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On what we value, part VI—a summary
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On what we value, part VI—a summary

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Jan 04, 2018
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This series of essays has covered a fairly wide range of territory, but its central premise is quite simple. We don’t know what to value. Egoism causes us to value ourselves in almost every single situation we find ourselves in. And egoism, like all the other features in being, is not a psychological action or theoretical premise; it isn’t, furthermore,…

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