GURDJIEFF’S EARLY TALKS 1914-1931

In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Essentuki, Tiflis, Constantinople, Berlin, Paris, London, Fontainebleau, New York, and Chicago

*Relação de notas de encontros, dos quais traduziremos extratos:*

In Appreciation: A Short Essay of Commendation xv

By Joseph Azize

Reflexes of Truth. 1914

“Nearly everybody taking part in the discussions…”

Lecture (Pre-Institute)

“So is the ordinary man. He can live all his life as he is…”

Narcotics and Hormones

“Narcotics creating ecstatic states such as… ”

Lecture on Symbolism, The Enneagram

“In every man there has been implanted…”

Essentuki, About 1918

“Everything in the world is material…”

Essentuki, About 1918

“Several times, when speaking on different subjects…”

Lecture Read in Essentuki, About 1918

“I have already said that there are people who are…”

Fears, Identification (A Fragment). Essentuki

“… revolving thoughts, which return again and again…”

The Conscious Feeling of One’s Real Self

“The Institute opens new horizons for a man …”

On Hypnotism. Tiflis

“In Europe, hypnotism is much spoken about and much …”

Wednesday, 5 January 1921

“Three kinds of food. Bread, etc., air, and…”

First Meeting. November 1921

“One thought observes another…”

Dog and Emotionality. Thursday, 10 November 1921

“Dog. The Animal learns nothing. It participates, poses…”

First Talk in Berlin, Thursday, 24 November 1921

“You ask about the aim of the movements…”

Second Meeting in Berlin, December 1921

“All our existing knowledge comes from …”

Tuesday, 3 January 1922

“Nothing can be done with one center activity…”

Wednesday, 8 February 1922

“Consideration, do not consider, i.e. within…”

London, 1922

“Man is a multiple being…”

London, Monday, 13 February 1922

“Certain places in brains for families or groups of…”

The Study of Psychology. Man, The Machine. London, 1922

“You want to study psychology, but you have no psyche…”

Warwick Gardens, London, Sunday, 5 March 1922

“People talk of union with God…”

Personality and Essence. London, Wednesday, 15 March 1922

“Personality depends upon environment…”

Law of Seven. Saturday, 25 March 1922

“All movements, political, religious, etc., begin with…”

Thursday, 30 March 1922

“Thoughts, feelings and actions all in groups…”

Monday, 3 April 1922

“All centers surrounded by buffers…”

Thursday, 6 April 1922

“By self-remembering, observation, etc., acquire…”

Monday, 10 April 1922

“Ancient sacred art produces moods according to…”

Law of Three. Thursday, 20 April 1922

“Life is often the neutralizing force…”

Monday, 22 May 1922

“Essence is germ of astral body, astral body germ of…”

Friday, 2 June 1922

“Our development like butterfly…”

Saturday, 3 June 1922

“In law of three working within us…”

Monday, 12 June 1922

“We can do nothing new, all our actions…”

Monday, 10 July 1922

“No real hypnotism in West…”

Monday, 17 July 1922

“The difference between essence and personality…”

Saturday, 29 July 1922

“There is no evolution of masses, only of individuals…”

Dictated. Vaugirard, 1922

“The earliest beginning of the Institute…”

Fundamental Rules of the Institute. Vaugirard, 1922

“All members of the Institute…”

The Stop Exercise. Paris, Read Sunday, 6 August 1922

“The ‘Stop’ exercise is obligatory for…”

The Stop Exercise

“You have before you one of those positions…”

Body, Essence, Personality. Paris, August 1922

“When man is bom, three separate machines are…”

One-Sided Development. Paris, August 1922

“In each of those present here one of his…”

Questions and Answers. Prieure, October 1922

“Has Mr. Gurdjieff’s educational system produced…”

Fontainebleau, November 1922

“All exercises which may be given in the Institute…”

Wednesday, 17 January 1923

“Every animal works according to its constitution…”

Prieure, Friday, 19 January 1923

“One-twentieth of all our energy goes to…”

Fontainebleau, Friday, 19 January 1923

“To all my questions…”

Fontainebleau, Saturday, 20 January 1923

“Now I am sitting here…”

Summary of Lectures. January 1923

“We cannot remember ourselves because…”

Fasting, breathing. Prieure, Saturday, 27 January 1923

“If anyone in the second group…”

Sex. Prieure, Sunday, 28 January 1923

“The human machine and its functions are very limited…”

Formatory Apparatus. Prieure, Monday, 29 January 1923

“I understood from conversations that…”

Energy, Sleep. Prieure, Tuesday, 30 January 1923

“You have probably already heard at lectures that…”

Two Spirits. Prieure, Friday, 9 February 1923

“It is said in some ancient teachings that…”

Movement. Prieure, Friday, 9 February 1923

“As it is in everything, so it is in movement…”

The Meaning of Life. Prieure, Friday, 9 February 1923

“What is the meaning of life…”

Breathing. Prieure, Saturday, 10 February 1923

“Try gradually to understand the principle of breathing…”

Liberation, Identification. Prieure, Tuesday, 13 February 1923

“Liberation leads to liberation…”

Separation. Wednesday, 28 February 1923

“Many things were said at different times…”

Symbology. Friday, 2 March 1923

Some symbols like enneagram…”

The Equipage. March 1923

“Man can be compared to an equipage…”

Palm Sunday, 25 March 1923

“Learn by heart the following words…”

Tuesday, 3 April 1923

“Fasting, Prayer, Passion, Pacification, Confession…”

Tricks. Prieure, 1923

“So far our attention has been concentrated…”

Prolongation of Life, The Clock. Prieure, Saturday, 12 May 1923

“Is it possible to prolong life…”

Three Powers, Economy. Prieure, Wednesday, 23 May 1923

“Man has three kinds of powers…”

Two Kinds of Love. Prieure, Thursday, 24 May 1923

“There are two kinds of love…”

Tuesday, 12 June 1923

“God and microbe same system…”

Egoism and Aim. Fontainebleau, Tuesday, 21 August 1923

“For one section of the people here…”

Movements, Exercises, Demonstrations. New York, 1924

“The program of this evening will be…”

Exact Language. New York, Monday, 11 February 1924

“For an exact study, an exact language is needed…”

Animate and Inanimate. Tuesday, 12 February 1924

“In the world there is only matter and energy…”

New York, Tuesday, 12 February 1924

“Men have mind and women feelings…”

New York, Wednesday, 13 February 1924

“What is the method of the Institute?…”

Matter, Energy, Life. New York, Friday, 15 February 1924

“There is in the world one matter and one energy…”

Centers and Soul. New York, Sunday, 17 February 1924

“Working on oneself is not so difficult as wishing to work…”

Carriage, Horse, Driver. New York, Monday, 18 February 1924

“This thought can be explained well if we take the analogy…”

New York, Wednesday, 20 February 1924

“It is impossible to be impartial…”

New York, Wednesday, 20 February 1924

“Everywhere and always there is affirmation and negation…”

Questions and Answers. New York, Friday, 22 February 1924

“Something was said about the atomic weight of elements…”

Considering. New York, Friday, 22 February 1924

“Everyone is in great need of one particular exercise…”

Beauty, Love, Influences. New York, Sunday, 24 February 1924

“What relation has beauty to the system…”

Two Rivers. New York, Tuesday, 26 February 1924

“It will be useful if we compare human life in general to…”

Questions and Answers. New York, Friday, 29 February 1924

“Does the work of the Institute necessitate giving up…”

Religion, Will, Education. New York, Saturday, 1 March 1924

“At the beginning of every religion we find…”

New York, Sunday, 2 March 1924

“Is it necessary to study the…”

Self-observation. New York, Thursday, 13 March 1924

“Self-observation is very difficult…”

The Actor. New York, Sunday, 16 March 1924

“Is the actor's profession useful”

Prison. New York, Monday, 17 March 1924

“The main cause of all misunderstandings…”

Department. New York, Monday, 17 March 1924

“Man’s organism is an independent entity…”

Artificial Breathing. Chicago, Wednesday, 26 March 1924

“Can experimenting with breathing be useful…”

Chicago, 1924

“Kundabuffer at base of spine, prevents our seeing…”

Essence and Personality. America, Saturday, 29 March 1924

“In order better to understand…”

Tuesday, 1 July 1924

“While carrying a heavy rock…”

August 1924

“After his accident…”

Monday, 22 December 1924

“All nations are like people, like individuals…”

Ecstasy of Revelation

“Today I have finished writing this first book…”

New York, Tuesday, 9 December 1930

“How can we gain attention…”

New York, Friday, 12 December 1930

“What must I do…”

New York, Monday, 29 December 1930

“I frequently remember my aim but…”

The “Compromise” Exercise. New York, 1930

“The totality of man's attention received from…”

New York, Friday, 6 February 1931

“There are two parts to air, evolving and involving…”

Exercise, 1939

“Fifteen minutes relax…”

The Four Ideals Exercise. Friday, 1 October 1948

“On earth all people have an ideal…”

Fragments

Sayings

Aphorisms