"For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as evidence of the continuing vitality of this remarkable teaching. It may be counted as among the small handful of books that communicate something of what Gurdjieff brought."

-- Jacob Needleman

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“Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.”

Source : Inaugural address as President of Yale University, April 11, 1964.
“Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart,”
“Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means.”
“If you win power, remember why you wanted it.”
“Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.”
“I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.”
“Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.”
“It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.”

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