Gurdjieff Foundation of Texas - Houston

Gurdjieff Foundation of Texas - Houston Gurdjieff study group. Individuals who come together to study and practice the forms and traditions of G. I Gurdjieff.

The Houston Group offers weekly meetings, sittings (meditation), Movement practice, readings, music, study groups and crafts. The Gurdjieff Work is often referred to as a Sacred School. Although we are not secluded in a monastary, we study and work with sacred ideas and practices as part of our search to understand who we are individually and what is Man's role in the Universe. At some point a person cares about the Questions: "Who am I and Why am I here?"

08/13/2026

We are seeking to approach the unknown, to open the door to what is hidden in us and pass beyond. It is necessary to submit entirely to an inner voice, to a feeling of the divine, of the sacred in us, but we can do it only in part. The sacred manifests as inner consciousness. The divine, God, must be found within. Truth, the only truth, is in consciousness.

Jeanne de Salzmann

08/03/2026

At a certain moment we come to see two aspects, two natures, in ourselves—a higher nature related to one world and a lower nature related to another, a different world. What are we? We are neither one nor the other—neither God nor animal. We participate in life with both a divine nature and an animal nature. Man is double; he is not one. And, as such, he is only a promise of man until he can live with both natures present in himself and not withdraw into one or the other. If he withdraws into the higher part, he is distant from his manifestations and can no longer evaluate them; he no longer knows or experiences his animal nature. If he slides into the other nature, he forgets everything that is not animal, and there is nothing to resist it; he is animal . . . not man. The animal always refuses the angel. The angel turns away from the animal.

A conscious man is one who is always vigilant, always watchful, who remembers himself in both directions and has his two natures always confronted.

Jeanne de Salzmann: Reality of being

07/17/2026

I need to understand that by myself, without a relation with something higher, I am nothing, I can do nothing. By myself alone, I can only remain lost in this circle of interests, I have no quality that allows me to escape. I can escape only if I feel my absolute nothingness and begin to feel the need for help. I must feel the need to relate myself to something higher, to open to another quality.

Jeanne de Salzmann: Reality of Being

07/09/2026

There is only one source of energy. As soon as my energy is called in one direction or another, a force appears. Force is energy in movement. There are different directions, but the source is the same. The life force, the force of manifestation, is always in movement. It has to flow. … taken by it, I am swept along. I begin to suspect that I will always be taken if I do not also turn toward another, unknown part of myself.

Jeanne de Salzmann: Reality of Being

04/28/2026

I need to experience “I do not know” without seeking an answer, to abandon everything to enter the unknown. Then it is no longer the same mind. My mind engages in a new way. I see without any preconceived idea, without choice. In relaxing, for example, I no longer choose to relax before knowing why. I learn to purify my power of vision, not by turning away from the undesirable or toward what is agreeable. I learn to stay in front and see clearly. All things have the same importance, and I become fixed on nothing.

Jeanne de Salzmann: Reality of Being

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