Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff: Lee's Gurdjieff Newsletter

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Strong-law cosmology

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Jan 02, 2020
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Always go towards God, even when the devil is driving.

…My own formulation.

We all have a devil in us. This was, of course, a classic trope of Gurdjieff’s: each person, he said, has an angel and a devil in them… the devil, you can trust.

My wife asked me what “the devil” in us is. The devil, of course, represents temptation. In his classic guise he works a…

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