George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a spiritual teacher born in Alexandropol, in the Russian Empire, who died in France in 1949. He taught The Work, a path of self-observation and awakening from the waking sleep of everyday life.
Why It Matters
Gurdjieff taught that most people live in a kind of waking sleep and can awaken through work on the body, feelings and mind together. His path includes self-observation, self-remembering and sacred movements, and his writings include Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson and Meetings with Remarkable Men. At NLS we honor him as a teacher of conscious attention and inner work.
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