Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'

G.I. Gurdjieff

1975 • 192 pages

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Begun in 1934, this final volume of Gurdjieff's trilogy, All and Everything, is a primary source for Gurdjieff's ideas, methods, and biography. Gurdjieff offers guidance to his "community of seekers," through a selection of talks given in 1930, autobiographical material crucial to understanding his ideas, and the incomplete essay "The Outer and Inner World of Man." Available for the first time in paperback, this is the ultimate piece of Gurdjieff's work that his numerous followers have been waiting for.

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2 primary books

#3 in All and Everything

All and Everything is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 1950 with contributions by G.I. Gurdjieff.

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Mitch Olson

OMG! What a load of verbiage! It looks like English but there is no sense in any sentence of the 3x-too-long sentences.
2. Disappointing. Gurdjieff was a profound man, but there is zero profundity in this book.
3. Its not a book. Its like a letter written to someone who he imagined presumably cared about what he had to say
4. It's slightly self-obsessed, and without any utility.
5. If this was your first exposure to Gurdjieff then you'd never bother reading anything else he had to say. Which is a massive shame as he an important contributor to understanding and mastering the human experience.
6. Don't bother reading this book. I don't understand why he bothered writing it. Dick book Gurdjieff!

August 10, 2022

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