Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff: Lee's Gurdjieff Newsletter

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Why am I?

Why am I?

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July 2.

I never know what I’m going to say in my diary in the morning. 

In the same way, I never know what is going to happen in life. Someone who was trolling me a number of weeks ago call self contemplation a “luxury.” The inference was that self contemplation is excessive, unnecessary. Yet the self, my Being, is what receives life; and if I don’t use t…

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