Always and Everywhere
- smcculley
- Aug 7
- 2 min read
Always and Everywhere
In the absence of a permanent connection with higher centers, will is the steward’s ability to bridge the interval in self-remembering.
Mark’s example of washing dishes is very much to the point. We’ve eaten a meal and then we need to restore the dining table, wash and put away dishes. Perhaps there’s a lull between activities. But sometimes, or all too often, that lull seems to extend ad infinitum. I’s such as ‘I’ll get to them later’ or ‘It’s only a few dishes, I’ll wash them with the next meal’s dishes’ or simply a complete disregard. And not only dishes. There’s a myriad of octaves that make up our everyday lives which need attending to, that we sometimes or oftentimes leave undone.
There are mechanical third force for completing octaves. Guests are visiting, our manager expects a report by close of business, a customer needs a product or service on a certain date, picking grandma up for a shopping spree, and need to have a clean car. Again, there’s any number of tasks and responsibilities which occur, that in one form or another need accomplishing.
Where there’s no mechanical third force, octaves are left undone, either at mi-fa which is characterized by a loss of interest or a lack of energy, or at the si-do interval, characterized by negative I’s or attitudes related to the task at hand, that inhibit completion of the octave. At either interval justifications for not completing the octave enter.
These everyday octaves that make up our lives are precisely the opportunities for developing will. We can bridge each interval with self-remembering. When we work like this, the effort to complete an octave becomes a conscious effort. Underscoring this, Peter Ouspensky observed the best time to remember oneself is when all instinctive and emotional tendencies go against it.
For the individual in whom higher centers have permanently crystallized, bridging intervals in self-remembering is no longer necessary. Higher centers generate themselves, they generate consciousness. They are the conscious principle of Gurdjieff’s wish that we remember ourselves always and everywhere.
To see an individual remembering himself always and everywhere, click on the following link:
Rembrandt Self-Portrait Montage
Courtesy Friends of Kenwood
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