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Jeanne de Salzmann

Born

Reims, France

Website

http://www.realityofbeing.org

Genre

Philosophy

Influences

G.I. Gurdjieff ...more

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Jeanne de Salzmann was born in 1889 in Reims, France and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. She married Alexandre de Salzmann, a well-known Russian painter, in 1912 and returned to his home in Tiflis in the Caucasus mountain region of southern Russia. She met Gurdjieff in 1919 in Tiflis, became committed to his work, and remained close to him until his death in Paris thirty years later.

Before he died Gurdjieff charged Mme. de Salzmann to live to be "over 100" in order to establish his teaching. He left her all his rights with respect to his writings and dance exercises called the "Movements."

During the next forty years she arranged for publication of his books and preservation of the Movements, and established Gurdjieff centers to practice the ...more

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Average rating: 4.35 · 302 ratings · 27 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Rencontres avec des hommes remarquables by G.I. Gurdjieff, Henri Tracol (Translation), Jeanne de Salzmann (Translation) 4.10 avg rating — 2,775 ratings — published 1960 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff 4.35 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Call to Work: Remarks of Madame Jeanne de Salzmann by Jeanne de Salzmann, Ravi Ravindra (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Réalité d’Être: L’enseignement de G. I. Gurdjieff (La Bibliothèque de l’homme rusé) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Récits de Belzébuth à son petit fils: Critique objectivement impartiale de la vie des hommes by Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Jeanne de Salzmann (Translator), Henri Tracol (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I have to see that the thought “I” is the greatest obstacle to consciousness of myself. Everything I know through my senses has a name. I am encumbered by names, which become more important than the things themselves. I name myself “I,” and in doing it as if I knew myself, I am accepting a thought that keeps me in ignorance. If I learn to separate myself from names, from thoughts, little by little I will come to know the nature of the mind and lift the veil it casts over me.”
― Jeanne De Salzmann, The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff

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“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, The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff

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“What is too often missing is knowing what I want. And it is this that undermines my will to work. Without knowing what I want, I will not make any effort. I will sleep. Without wishing for a different quality in myself, to turn toward my higher possibilities, I will have nothing to lean on, nothing to support work. I must always, again and again, come back to this question: What do I wish?”
― Jeanne De Salzmann, The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff

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