Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff: Lee's Gurdjieff Newsletter

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Self Contemplation and its Excess; Traditionalism
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Self Contemplation and its Excess; Traditionalism

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Lee van Laer
Jun 03, 2020
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My experience with words is that people often say things without thinking through what the words actually mean, or what they have actually said — as opposed to what they think they said.

I’ll give you a couple of recent examples. One person made the following public comment in a response to a post I made on facebook:

“It’s a shame to believe all humans ha…

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