GEORGE IVANOVITCH GURDJIEFF: MAN'S AWAKENING | AND THE PRACTICE OF REMEMBERING ONESELF, by Henri Tracol LYCTURE OVEN AT THE SALLY DU NUSEE DE LIMON PARIS ‘on are Grit mancat 1967 AY THE REQUEST OF THLE SOCIETY "HOMME ETLA CORWAIBEANCY AvTHn OUILD Pass BRAY 1968Gronoxs Ivanoviren Gunoytere. Yes, I did indeed know this man. I was among those wh, during the German occupation of France fequented his modest partment off the Avenue des Termes in Pats, Others hhave described the sumptuous ‘feasts of friends" to ‘which we were bidden several timesa week and which, tosaythe least, were incongruous in those sparse times, To sce him in the early morning busying himself in getting the rarest and most exotic provisions the market could produce and preparing with such care, ‘onan old charcoal stove, his felicitous and audacious banquets, wasto realise what importance he attached tothe patriarchal ¢ wioms of welcoming guests. Tt was his way of enabling us to experience, amid the turmoil (of contradictory reactions that such hospitality inev- itably aroused in usat such 2 period, the exceptional character of those hours~so remote from our ordinary lives-that we spent with him. And the subtle favour ‘of his dishes and the vodka inwhichthe famous toasts to the idiots’ were deunk, presaged, on another level, that special nourishment which we could receive only fromhim. "Potlatch" some people called it, and not without reason. There is no doubt at all that in this generous display of hospitality there was an element of provoca- ‘And Inter we shall have occasion to return 10 this question, But what was the challenge implicit in this largesse? What summons lay within ita it were disguised? Allehis was difficult to understand. ‘There wewere, time after time, back at his side, returning a 1 Voile: riba feast given by cian forthe expres purpose ofchatlengng his gests"hscastonoigaly nd ftmong the Kwak! dans of Bish Colb,considred iymany anthropologist oe ofthe main features of what {hey ae pleased eal pesive menprodigal children to a father until then unknown — astonished tobe there, yet feeling that it was the most ‘natural thing in the world and, a the same time ~ it must be admitted ~ a litle uneasy at our inability to {grasp the reason why. For if he accepted us as his chile ddten what was he likely to expect from usin return? Nothing, it seemed, except, a8. fist step, toopen our eyes and recognise him as indeed our father. ‘At this point, Lam tempted to recall his mssive presence, the serene power, at once formidable and- Feasguring, which emanated from his whole being bi bearing, his gestures, his manner. I can sil hear bis voice resounding in me, arousing echoes that ae ever fresh and new. Above lI find myself standing before im, his eyes in mine, confronting the exacting bene- volence of his gaze. Exacting, yes and kindling with fire and ofien merciless. He seemed to divine the best as ellas the worst ie usand, being an expert in such matters, heemiled. ‘That smile as ironic and com- passionate but quite without indulgence. Nothing fescaped him, We felt that he would not hesitate thow himself as pitiless to ‘mine own executioner" Which, without yet knowing it, we ourselves were, Here, indeed, was the real meaning oflove. Tre listened and invited us to declare ourselves. But sentimentaicy and maudlin beneficence had no part in him, On this point he was utterly unequivocal. To be indulgent was not his rele. His language was rough, his tone sometimes violent, his comments could be brutal, his mimicry and gestures all too elo- ‘quent, And his sudden resumption of affability could ‘beeven more wounding. In short, hedid not spare us. ‘Theres no lack of material tollustrate this uncom- ‘promising side of his nature, Butall this belongs tothe "paste aeaeel 1 knew thie man, sad just now, But was I not, more or less wittingly, lying? Who can say ofany man that he has really knows him? ‘Charity, as the proverb reminds us, should begin at hhomeand, properly speaking,one’s knowledge ol man begins with oneself. It i only in the measure that T know myself that I can find again the mark of Gurdj- ief’s passing footprint in me~the trace ofthe impres sions tha, according to where I was in myself during ‘the nine years Iwas near him, he left in me and real- ‘se what has become ofthese impressions in relation to what I myself have become, ‘The image of the same man is inevitably different for everyone who comes into contact with him, and since the image is necessarily created by the beholder, subject to change and fluctuates according to the bbeholder’s idiosyncracies. It would be fruitless, there= fore, from various personal reminiscences, subjective and fragmentary a8 they are, to attempt to reconstruct ‘what could only be the rohot-porteat ofa ghost. If weare seeking Gurdjieff it is notin this direction that we shall find him. Thereare other indications that can better orientate us in our search, and questions that need to beasked. Is it nota fue, for instance that foes number of oucantemporariestheencounter with this man wae the major event in ther lives? Even when someof them ater diftedaway, were they not secretly still intrigued, all asking themselves if all they had experienced had truly happened and whether they had - zeally lived through this period in thet lives? And was it not common to us all, that sense of having let sip through our fingers everything that was offered us? ‘What we came looking for in Gurdjieff was net, after all, the man. It was the Master. ‘Or, to put it more clearly (for nothing could be 3worse at this juncture than to create artificial distinc- ns) it was the man in his quality of Master, At the risk of overstating my exse et me tell yo of an exe perience which accurately bears on this ambiguity, an ‘experience that was shared by someone whois present tonight, ‘Monsicur Gurdjieff had invited the two of us to lunch in the Rue des Colonels-Renard, and we found ie with hima rare enough event and fone net to be missed. arrived, full of burning ques- tions, and found him so benevolent, so. manifestly disposed to listen that I watched eagerly for the fist portunity to put them to him. But the opportunity “Appareils he relied my impatience and cenlel to pay wth mess cat plays witha mouse He ‘rasdinarmingy gente and beige but the moment he ened that Uae ready treturn tothe charge he ite Beviusly sidetracked me, ether with some malicious Eomment ora pithy ancedoe, or by challenging met detect specie avour orto guess the exact quantity afepcestacdnacertan di he had devised for out ‘pect benett PT werat alow to indratand where all these mane ccueres were leading. My questions suddenly lseall their weight: Never hall Torget hi look of muse: mentas he watched the skirmishes ofthe battle surg ing imme, nor my feelings of frustration and distress that werénevertiles permested bya strange grate tad for this lesson. When at length found myself fnce mor out in the stret I et ike Parsi i the assert wast afc the Fisher King’s cate had vane ished. "Who among us didnot suffer from this ‘Parsi complex’= au Iwas pleased to call itor them on = 4 duvng those wondeflly rich years when so much sean oen and oli relly recived? here cersny neing new nth Even serous matter hemore scious when the Yolce treknew nt how tolisten to now lence. ‘After the death of + Master, what becomes of hig disciples and he caching heb tansmited other? Tedepends Whet kindof Maser doe speak of ere and what kindof dcp? If when the cl tly a ‘avs disciples inaugurate cl become sectarian ot naa rene bis thought and cody his lightest, stterance-con sucha ston ele toa rea Master? ot when he wk rs gone hs taken cre during biatfimeyo warn i flower ofthe danger of any Kind of exptalistion and the necessity of puting everyting in question, even st the rik of leaving theimin continuing dilemma this ia very diferent ‘The writer, Margatet Anderson, quotes the sombre reflection ofa former ‘Gurdjefian’, ‘Te was Gurdjies failure, it says, ‘that he never trained a single disciple who was eapable of under- standing what was expected of him Margaret Anderson hastens to put this in doubt when she asserts that she knew ‘a least three people fully trained to transmit the essence of Gurdjie'ssys+ tem, one among whom had worked with him for more than thirty years and had bee charged by him to con tinue his teaching after his death ‘But we must go further. If tis true thatthe tree is known by its fruit (and who will deny tha thins #02), itis too often forgotten that only a true gardener une derstand trecs and fruit. Who will pretend to be an expert here? And where can such a one be found? ‘There willbe no lack of candidates for thi role, prom 5ising or unpromisng, asthe ease may be. Dut their owe, forthe most part, willbe hearsay. ’A tue fardeners fst cae i to make sre tht the ec il alive anc capable of bearing frit, He will not be disconcerted when one bough ils and mother matures for he know that he fs nt here leal- ing witha diagram ora botanical char but with ife itselfThe gardener of men, if we may so put it, knows well that he imseifhas created nothingyhe has werely dug the ground, planted the tree, hoes, watered and pruned —ll this fer taking into account the nature ‘ofthe sol the atmospheric conditions the climate and the prevailing wind. And if he has taken the precau- tion of traning certain assistant, they now, when cone day he has to leave them, how to watch over the tree that is now in their keeping. sit, moreover so dificult for us torealise that there ‘must inevitably be long years of struggle between'see- ing what is expected of us" and being able in some measure to put it into practice? ‘This fact~that the wey is long ~ accounts for many defections, Furthermore, is it, inthe las analysis, so dificult toaccepttheabvious that Gurdje would have filed in his most essential task had he, in fact, trained a disciple’ capable of understanding once and for all what life itself, and his own deepest being, would unceas- ingly exact from him tothe very end? "These questions show us without any doubt how far we are today from understanding the concept of Master. Inthis connection let mesay how sorry Iwas not to be able to come back from the United States in time forthe report, given in thiserien Homme ela Cone tion, ofthe otal and serous stady undertaken bythereview ermeronthiscrucloubjecc The fourth ‘shu o this review-which I cannot oo much prise rakes the pint that once the nate of Master recognised necondng to traditional indications that 2t'aninaration of conciousness ~ tempi isd on hig con and not on his persona “This withowe question the ony true perspective. One cold sea in vague terme, of his message of inasenae more dopmtic than spiritual his mision Bot toundedine the fc cht hei there fora purpose that he has something to dan exacting sk to ae comps immetiatly gives us the possiblity of» dit trent understanding. One step farther and theMaster well appear tous ot only shaving preci role to play na particule contest ut, inthe long run a the Enbodinent ofthe rae ele Indeed the Master ison with is fonction, Ttean even be std that hei the faction the function made Tht what isthe exsence of this many faceted fance tion that forever eludes our grasp? "You knw, oa leat ean suring theanewer Tia suggeted nthe leven tothesutjetwearestdy- this evening The mstersfncton that of Bod ahidharma whote role was oan the sleeper. The Manteristhe Awakener ‘Yes The Maser embodies awakening. Bt who isawakencd? rom what, and to wha? ‘The Materswakens thone who themselves wih o wake up. He rousce them from their sep, awakes them to Being o Reality, to Life, ‘Everything hes to start mithan encounter Dut who ‘nie desires this encounter? An event ofthis ind 7cannot beentrelydueto chance. Impl east that fone ready for in one way or hnother Otherwise tren ifthe encounter takes pce the neceanry Cont tacteannot be made ‘We cannot speak of Master without dscplg any smorethan of dscns withouta Master, Wis fakes 4 Master snot only bis power toteanamit the tet he Fimsel has reeivedsi sso the fact that there are hore that avait im. s René Daal se Dietrich and their fellowseirch- ere were propery quaifed to he dsines for they srere huny and athirst Their sear for the ruth teas bacon an essential dvtisfction, «profound Unease anda particular sufeing brought shout by Zot really bing what they were, nor what they fel themseles called to be, The sleeper were toning in their beds ambling forthe ight Unlesstheeiseomcone at hand to shake them only those sleepers who realy wish to wake will be woken. Ae forthe others well thee fs no sounder sleeper than the man who docs not wantto wake wp. ‘And from where doce this wish to nme arse? Something must glimmer under the cinder some embers stil be glowing. Avakening mst smoulder Linder the ashes ofthe dresm of him ho seeks to wake. isthe prime mystery, the fundamental enigma. Fort isasif awakening were already there, watching. forthe propitious moment to shake the sleeper. But there are few who know how to recognise the ‘nature of this waking dream which is our substitute forlite. ‘The old Taoist Master, Chang Taw well under stood this when he asked ‘Is life nots dream? “There are somewho, when awakened froma happy dream, are desolate. Others, delivered from an uneasy dream, rejoice. In either ease, so long as the dream lasted they believed in its realty. “So it is with the reat awakening, death, after which we say of fife that it was nothing but long. dream. But, among the living, there are few who tunderstand this, Almost everyone believes himself to bbe awake. Some ate convinced that they are kings, ‘othersthat theyare paupers.Youand Lallofus dream, whotell youthat you dresm,I,t00,dream my dream." Forthe moment let us he content with this brief ref= ‘erence to Chang Tau, lest some Taoist in exile should ‘come slong climing to be the begetter of Gurjie?'s teaching, a8 indeed happened recently when, almgst simultaneously, a theologian ofthe Eastern Christian Chureh and a'"Suf” under mandate from 8 secret Drotherhood in the Middle East, made the sme Te that a it may, the sleep which Gurdjieff speaks ofsathe permanent conition of the man who beieves imac tobe avakeyis «kindof hypnotic trance in ‘which he is imprioned by the power of the imagin- ‘ion that pomer which othe ad of ife opposes his fering and the possibility of seeing heel for what hei, ‘Asto the fal aim of Awakening, what can {sy that any serious searcher doesnot Know already? A though thas many diverse aspect, the mount has only ene summit In aiding to Bring, Rey, Life ft me not tbblng om ike one drunk with words, Thee nner rexonancein nate sme forall of ws nd each can get intoxicated in is own way. This snot ou object Ttissathertoconfronesconeepton which we may, 1 hope find osreives atone ~ the idea of rer,Awakening it not the conquest ofa sate of higher consciousness is a moveren repeatedly attempted tnd repented frstratdsofa return tthe concise ness of soho’, Teven the most feeting glimmer of conscioupness carries the promise of articipatininAllthat Ex, ‘out of which, by divsion and difeentiton' ap Gund eays, "springs the diversity ofl observable ircnomens . But let us not dally with words that lend themselves. all too easly to pscuormetaphysical speculation. Sccnin its tre spsitalperspective Gur ing esentaly procical, “And since we sce to comprehend the function of Avwakening ait appears in a Master we should now tryto understand how it proceeds Is it not hin fret concern to assemble or creat the best porsible conditions for awakening? Nor should we forget tht fe himself par ofthese condition, he is integral to them, or rather, he deliberately puts - Nimsel une their sway. He yn fac, the cena condition towards which others gravitate. Ife understand this we may be les astonished by the fcedom with which Gurdjieff juggled with these conditions. Porto him, itsema all means were good. ‘Thesimplestand most evident was his own presence the silent ifiunce he exercised on all who came fo Bim, which someties assumed a very direc fora 38 a tort of smo But he bad many ather means up hs sleve in and, to outward appearances, negative. or example, he never hesitated to aroute doubts shout himelf bythe kindof language he used, by Bi Ssleulated contradictions snd by he behaviour to sucha poit that people around him, particularly those 10 they have to gs whoa tendencytoworship him blindly werefinl- Iy obliged to open thir ees tothe shtos of their “Avani imps a rapture the threvd of cone sia, change of level an intcral between two completely diferent stites-A shocks necesny (oer Srethe pssge fom one Sate tothe ether “This shock could be bought stout by Gur in allsrs of mays by an trape change fate, by dive provocton or an unexpected nile, by 2c doubling of exacting requirements or asudden ol Fhing genre. ‘Naturally all these methods presuppose the ess ceo cence, ofa gifted hand ana consummate rity onthe part f the manipulator We should te trary of Sorcerer's Apprentice who mine tey eh flow on and imate thle masters Sooner or ter por ehelear to adapt, Such capac ite anna be tei even thane who ma he {qed vo eeceve them, They have tobe for sheseladjuateltoonesomncapciiesandinscto see ommodatetour const changing crates Tnany cine, Gunijiet'staching wes as fray a3 itis pou ogo rom al dae formalism, With inn in hin doctrine sd method formed a seme Alislubleunion. His rela tomeet or enpectations fa teaching? couched monde terms and along Sato sequence wasn elf eton He had the fr of ching questions and equal of uminating 2 sujet, an witha fash of lightlng, when we had en upallbopecfananovert He apoke of his natn and opponed al system sintion. He would put all is strength of emphasis upon a ceri spect and moment intr ewerp i sway infavour ofits oppenite. ‘When he heard anyone piously repeating his own words he would angrily deny having utered such spies, Tiere we come toa point tat has tobe very clearly understond Ii no part of the Master's role to take over the disciples effor of understandings the ate, find he alone, mist make i for hinsel. The shocks, sugestions and sitvations caleulsted to provoke the discipe’s awakening are there soley to prepare and train him to do without his master, to go forth under bis own steam a soon ashe shows himself expable of Going so. Ty its very nature, the ine search is inevitably an individual matter. The suggestion is put, thecal ia sade, The restis upto each one of s. On the one hand ~ sleep, absence, fongetfulnesss fon the other, awakening, presence and remembering ‘oneself, These are the basic elements of the problem. Each must make of them what he e ‘But what does it mean to remember oneself? Without launching into a lengthy distertation let sme, nevertheless 3t this point, ty to dapel some poss- ible misconceptions. If we have choten this theme above all others t0 elaborate upon, i is because the Practice of Remem= bering Oneself is the master key to Guedes teach ing. It is the Alpha and Omega, the threshold that must be passed at the outset and crossed and recrossed time and again. Iti also the ‘ground’, as it were, of complete realisation; any man capable of reaching this point would comprehend in their entirety allthe inner and outer aspects of his own make-up. He would be Completely Hneclfand able eventually otake his teve place inthe univers Tmt so be sid that remembering oneself ad- mits ofan infinite sumber of approaches, Tecan be Tooke at from many and varied anges, Mh certain defvitedegrecs and stages and thee always more ‘than we can ever grep. Yet, benesth al its multiple forms we can savour again and gun the unique tate of ths Fundamental perience Nothing ee mater and ts ecuse thi Factor sicily ete that somany dicordant notes are ear “There isa time for everything ~for meditation with dooreand pls clowet, nd for plunging with eyes wide open into the vortex of lie. Crytaleaton, the Tukingof arbitrary oppositions the tendency towards ATssoction, wrong tuning = al these are ebstacles, 46, to, ae over aetvty when calm i led for and ‘ete into sence when ics tine ape. Treo a that although the ably to remember onesie or bright needs Gat tbe diacorered thd thereatercutete. Tcking such specs work, wil wither away Ie necessary, therefore ~ without exhausting one in fullest, bu tthe sme tne never giving Up~ quietly totrytodevelp this epacty bythe fre: ‘eney datationand intent of ur attempts and by iEcsatng their breath and depth ‘Wat Soest mean remember oneself? Hire have been working atti practice fr more shana geocentric a inapable nwa I waa the beginning of es ctibing ito my own complete sattacion, Twill even goo fares osay that am even de cap- 3£- able than Iwas at st Fort the outst seemed to dhe that T could cleariy understand what i as all dbout, But Thad quickly to disabuse myself ofthis Haan Thetemativesttempesto remember mel soon Swept away my cherohed serpin that Tuners Sted andl plunged each se into an even deeper ays of incomprshension. Treas not alone inthis predicament, Tndeed the ys mas very donely pops We dung to cach Saher as owning men te ssid to lig to raw. utourgood Masts takingamalictovspletureinour plight eventotheentent of making iteven more dt Ea ever fae, atthe propitious momen, to ak ~ srt whe perclus wedoml ~ the most innocent {eedon inthe worl “When you remenier yourself what exe si that you remember? We were stuplfed at such ole fromthe be: Our heals were hs with conficng thoughts. “How could I, or anyone ce, kno exactly” i weasel by fecting moment tat Teoudenatch my Telfaway Hom my perpetual ream of myself ony y Intuition that T could guess st my ltent poetics tndexperence my lack of unity coherence and an Fermahent or ecive being? And ial this ese rienced simply by dtl er, was not this Feducing the wholething tsb? Tut these are mere empry words, In this effort, all thateanbe known orcertsinisthat remember wir. ‘Theres mathing that, without any posible dub, 1 aneall pall An fy then,nebing? “And yo theres farther evidence that cannot be dened Tes thi = that whether or not tbe active in tne the pou fs given me to become aware, at ‘Ceuin moments may own presence! here, no. 4 ‘This when I exnerience ity is accompanied by a strangely familiar taste, 2 particular sensation that right be called ‘genuinely’ subjective. Tt iy quite simply, I [recognise myself. [remember myself Thevitably this inner presence disappears [lose it and forgetit. Then I find icagain. [remember itor, tobe more accurate, itremembers me. “Tose. odie, Tobe born! Caught on the none of my dilemma —on one side therecogiton of my impotence and nothingness ard ‘nthe tne the certinty ofthis constantly renewed power olteing~ Lam reminded of thissaying, sb dest fecudjie. “Tose, Todi. Tobe bor Faced with such « stimbling-btoc, such an enige ss; bam tempted, ax 20 many other’ have been, £0 Hhondon the game rather than argue endlealy with clfer stall back onsompromiscs. But if | persevere ~deibersely by accepting to face it again ant agrng if Tabige moet to deepen my insigit into the parsdoses of my inner situation, thre may await mse the end of tis lng tunnel a very diferent prospctia vison and « new quetion or the old question wansformed: remember myself: Whoisthisl? Whi Who? Lets eavnagen rider on is hose cxsterng slong, the side of the motntain ithe iden" Myeel the the horse, thi inciidual essence this potential icing Myel?'this poweroffuneiona mariestaton, Bat the vision fatenal too quickly. ‘Myself? sMy horse, because of his faulty education and the mass of influences to which he has been subjected-and both of these aggravated by neglect ~ has become 3 monster of egoism. Hie has been badly broken in, ob viously ~ for, o and behold, if he is not at this very roment perching on the shoulders of his rider and ‘rushinghimunder his weight! Indeed, deprivedofmy mount, Tam nolonger rider-not even pedestrian, for'T', of myself, have no means of locomotion. ‘Once again, lremember myself. Order is again es tablished and the vision reappears. Now the ‘I’ no longer dreams, forthe rider is once morein the saddle. ‘With his hand securely onthe rein his mount will ave no chance of straying down the path that leads to the recipice. Wide awake, the rider keeps an eye on MMiysele, the horse, and guides him unfalteringly along the ridge. The one keeping watch, the other farrying the watcher, they make a complete whole. ‘Thus related, they will go ar. [And yet,the question emaing."T,"Myselfya single being ~ but Who is this being? Whoam I? ‘The urge to know and to experience what Lam so that I may become it more truly ~ that is the question ‘whichyall unknown to me, has never e=ased to resound In the secret depths of my being. "To be able to grapple withthe evidence one needs to be very simple. To the question "Who?" there ean only ever bean echo~"Me’, But this'Me'is unfithom- able, To us, who are always so ready to reduce to a ‘Common denominator that which belongs to infinity = this is precisely what isso dificult to accept. Te is true, neverthcles, that this question of ‘Me? 6 te passes understanding anditis fairtosaythat my head uite legitimately, finds itself unable immediately to rasp this fact. Ie wants to go on searching. Its role, Sifter all, is to deal with ideas, to elaborate the picture T have of myself which needs to be sufficiently sable and selfaffirming to stand up tothe host of impress- fons that constantly assil it. ‘Does this mean then, that nothing ofa better qual= fay js available tothe mind? If it surrenders to some~ thing that fe reales fs beyond its seope and therefore ‘begins to lose hope, is there no other course open toit than todeny and suppress itself? ‘No. The mind is not the enemy, but rather the vie= timof the use I makeofit, A reversal ofthis sicuation= 2 possilility that is always open ~ would enable the nin in cose relation with the ether supports of hu fan experience, to necome the indispensible auxiliary fina general liberstion from which the mind itself benef. i reversal of the situation isthe fuse that ignites. the process we call remembering oneself". ‘Sch an experience ean be more or less fug superficial Even 20, lean glimpse init the possibility of a radical transformation which if it develops, will fect not only the werld of my thought but my whole being. ‘Tht, in facts what nat stake an entirely dilfer- cent way of being. My attention is no longer the same, its power, subtlety and mobility increase and at the sam time it becomes more comprehensive and alive find mobiliges in me latent forces that have hitherto been inert Again, thisattention brings abouta change inthe capacity and rhythm of certain functions, thus ‘leasing aseriesof processes by which the global per= ‘eption | have of myself is intensified, a perception and ”that i far beyond my ordinary level of sensation and the tate of which i quite unmistakable. ‘This general upheaval coincides with the emerg- cence of a very intense feeling of renewal, a sense of ‘opening towards and belonging to the world without a2 well a8 to the world within, as though, in me, the too were one. ‘Tam now brimming with certitude, What I have just experienced breaks through the narrow confines fof my automatism and Iam brought under the influ tenceof a ceritin category of laws which, at my ondin- lary level of existence, cannot make themselves felt, From now on, supported by this experience, I cease thrust aside as suspect the desir to study seriously those processes of transformation of energy which the igrest traditions have set before usas nothing less than cosmic laws, Henceforward, 1am activated, not by mere idle > eurlosity, but by a legitimate foreshadowing, ampler and more accurate than before, of the possibilities ‘open to me; and a wider understanding ofthe princ ples of relativity and analogy inthe universe on which enemy opect incr greet andiberton “Thus we may uy tar a each evel of eience the snunfldcomponcnts of ur tng ae sabjected fo place, For he sorporalber wo spends be iidans"sombieeswellas forte inpontentaexner tthe surrenders hime tothe mires ested by an nbd imagination the ation ofthese ams pe rperalesavemest But hewnonakensthieelt eerreraptare by dint of stay one pectce the bees Gian inper order and divine te tere by mea of stich Ris own energy in edinbted and cele Ecnuntinede may hope so mans sal ierene lyin seardance wih his tru ature ‘And s0, what does it mean —to remember myself? Tels up to each one of us to harken to the question ‘without any thought of nding an answer, to carry i ‘within himself yes, znd tolive it. 9