Repairing the Past, part I

Those of us in the Gurdjieff work have no doubt often heard the Gurdjieff adage, “use the present to repair the past and prepare the future."

We tend to nod in agreement; it sounds not only correct, in some subtle way we can't quite put a finger on, but also important. Implicit in this acknowledgment is the idea that the past does indeed need to be repai…