The Heart of Joy: Soliloquies on Sorrow

Notes For the Reformation: an Appendix, Part VII: The State of the Art

It’s evident from the writings of earlier church, fathers and Saints, that the experience of this sweetness used to be a much more common event, at least among the religious; and it suggests that practice has deteriorated over the centuries.

One thing that Gurdjieff brought is irrevocably true: sacrifice and suffering are absolutely necessary in order to…