Doing as One Likes from Orage's Psychological Exercises and Essays, pp. 109-112 There is no higher aim than to do as we like, provided that we first know what we like and, secondly, can actually do it. But these are the difficulties: we do not know what we like, and, when we find out, we too often discover we cannot, in fact, do it--and not because people or circumstances forcibly restrain us, ...

Dying Daily from Orage's Psychological Exercises and Essays, pp. 105-108 It is said by those who have survived death that before the final plunge into unconsciousness the whole of a man's life is unrolled before him in pictures. Not a detail of the panorama is omitted, and every colour, form, and movement is reproduced in all its original lustre. Whether this is true of all causes or only in ...

Intuition from Orage's Psychological Exercises and Essays, pp. 102-104 For adults the possible means of developing intuition must of necessity be different . They cannot revive the early tendencies of childhood; they cannot become little children again, and grow up where they left off. At least, the means are not the same. By what means, if any, can adults try to repair the defect of their ...

Pondering from A. R. Orage's Commentaries on G. I. Gurdjieff's All and Everything, ed. C. S. Nott, pp. 56-58, 62-63. Orage: As has been said, a man should spend half, or at least a third, of his life in pondering. Helkdonis stands in relation to the assimilation of foods as pondering stands in relation to impressions. One of us said: A man must make an effort to resolve the struggle between ...

Three Times from Orage's Psychological Exercises and Essays, pp. 85-88 Time seems long or short to us according as it is filled or empty. We may compare time to a string on which beads are threaded. When the beads are very close together we are not aware of the string. The farther they are apart the more the string shows. ... Have you ever considered the possibilities of doubling or trebling ...

World View from Orage's Commentaries on All and Everything, p 51. Can we, in this life, develop our emotional and mental potentialities, become Platos or Hypatias, which in pre-Babylonian times were normal In this decline, from intuition and understanding, to rationalism, came the decline of religion and the invention of the maleficient idea of good and evil. What is our world-view Is the ...