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Gurdjieff - Meetings with Remarkable Men (DivX) (1979)

Alan Watts Lectures

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The Desire of Your Heart Can Be the Reality of Your Being

He told me that I have only three years to live, and advised me to spend them in the old man monastery on the northern slopes of the Himalayas. He said he would arrange everything to make my stay there. Oh God, is it true? Yes. There is no better way to finish my life. Perhaps I shall be able to make up for all the years I lost senselessly. You have now found the conditions in which the desire of your heart can become the reality of your being. Stay here until you acquire a force in you that nothing can destroy. Then you will need to go back into life and measure yourself constantly with forces which will show you your place.

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