Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff: Lee's Gurdjieff Newsletter

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The sacred duty of feeling

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Lee van Laer
Dec 15, 2020
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I’d like to talk about a different kind of attitude about the way I feel.

We feel good; we feel bad. These are facts. All the religion and esoteric practice in the world won’t change that much. 

I have to be present to my actual feelings as they are, which probably includes feelings of frustration or sorrow or anger that I feel the way I do. I ought to be…

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