What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within us. This is o….

At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than ourselves, is….

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature..

The problem of money dogs our steps throughout the whole of our lives, exerting a pressure that, in its way, is as powerful and insistent as any othe….

What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it al….

For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as evi….

The differences between religions are only differences involving the pathways that lead toward the practice of directly experiencing higher levels of….

Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken..

Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the process of in….

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones..

And, as soon as possible, be on the lookout for someone whose whole manner of speaking and being makes, as it were, a "sound" that draws your mind an….

In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research in the writings within the Judaic and Ch….

This "new" idea of God proposes that all the characteristics traditionally attributed to the purely external God are, in an important sense, attribut….

God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a consciou….

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nouris….

Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breed—an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly roams our materiali….

The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to offer. At the….

Death is the great equalizer. I've seen that phenomenon many times. I've had people in my classes come to me, men and women over 50 years old, and th….

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth..

Our modern world-view tragically misperceives and wrongly defines what it is to be human. We are conditioned by our society to believe happiness come….

Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result….