Our childhood mentors and tormentors add to the strange patterns of our educational systems with additional distortions to our beliefs and confidences, forcing us further from the curiosity we were born to embody!
Curiosity is part of it. But Gurdjieff named the deeper cost: "A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside — they are actually already dead." The patterns don't just suppress curiosity. They suppress aliveness itself.
That closing question stuck with me. It didn’t make me realize I’ve picked up new patterns so much as notice how many aren’t new at all. Same cycles, different versions. Makes you question what you’re building on. Appreciate this.
The hardest part isn't the patterns themselves — it's discovering you were living inside them without knowing. Nobody signs up for that. The real work starts the moment you realize what you're actually building on.
Our childhood mentors and tormentors add to the strange patterns of our educational systems with additional distortions to our beliefs and confidences, forcing us further from the curiosity we were born to embody!
Curiosity is part of it. But Gurdjieff named the deeper cost: "A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside — they are actually already dead." The patterns don't just suppress curiosity. They suppress aliveness itself.
Hmmmm… we might have to disagree on the definition of dead ;)
Profound state of having forgotten our connection? Absolutely!
That closing question stuck with me. It didn’t make me realize I’ve picked up new patterns so much as notice how many aren’t new at all. Same cycles, different versions. Makes you question what you’re building on. Appreciate this.
The hardest part isn't the patterns themselves — it's discovering you were living inside them without knowing. Nobody signs up for that. The real work starts the moment you realize what you're actually building on.