The silence: The region between two worlds
'It is necessary to pass through the world of the known to enter the world of the unknown, the void, the real.'
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p 167.
'There was chaos … There was no shape; nothing moved, there was not even a name for it. But in all this emptiness, Earth and Heaven parted and something emerged between the two.'
The Kokiki (also known as Fursukotofumi, in English, The Record of Ancient Matters) is the oldest surviving book in Japan (completed CE 712 and one of two master Shinto sacred texts: p 33
'To live the teachings would be to awake, to die to identification of one’s ordinary level of functioning, and to be reborn to the experience of another dimension, another world.'
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p xiv
'For the world to exist, God, who was everything and everywhere, consented to shrink, to leave a vacant space not inhabited by Himself: it is in this “hole” that the world occurred.'
E. M. Cioran, 1911 – 1995, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist: p. 28, All Gall is Divided, translated by Richard Howard, New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999
'It is necessary to pass through the world of the known to enter the world of the unknown, the void, the real.'
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p 167.
'There was chaos … There was no shape; nothing moved, there was not even a name for it. But in all this emptiness, Earth and Heaven parted and something emerged between the two.'
The Kokiki (also known as Fursukotofumi, in English, The Record of Ancient Matters) is the oldest surviving book in Japan (completed CE 712 and one of two master Shinto sacred texts: p 33
'To live the teachings would be to awake, to die to identification of one’s ordinary level of functioning, and to be reborn to the experience of another dimension, another world.'
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p xiv
'For the world to exist, God, who was everything and everywhere, consented to shrink, to leave a vacant space not inhabited by Himself: it is in this “hole” that the world occurred.'
E. M. Cioran, 1911 – 1995, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist: p. 28, All Gall is Divided, translated by Richard Howard, New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999
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