Mr. Gurdjieff: One of my favourite pictures.

 

One of the things I like the most about this photograph,

is that Gurdjieff is completely in control, John Pentland, sitting

to Mr. Gurdjieff's right, is a bit disheveled looking, a bit relaxed.

Gurdjieff is completely in his own space and focus.

 

Perhaps it was not that warmthat day judging by their clothes,

but both had been in the same car, the same temperature,

enduring the same drive and circumstances, one of them

obviously has developed a greater level of poise.

 

Just some thoughts, Mr. Gurdjieff said: "always look at all sides before make judgement"

 

Urged to flee Paris before the Germans entered in 1940, Gurdjieff chose to remain in his modest flat at 6 Rue des Colonels-Rénard. Though well into his seventies, he was unsparing of his energies: giving individual counselling; teaching a new series of dances or Movements at the Salle Pleyel; and somehow maintaining in those sparse times the patriarchal hospitality of his audacious feasts. French interest in Gurdjieff — formerly slight — now burgeoned, drawing many intellectuals to him, among them René Zuber (1902–1979) the film director. His slim volume Who Are You Monsieur Gurdjieff? is a calm and fastidious meditation: confronted with the enigma of Gurdjieff and deeply concerned to situate him in relation to Christianity, Zuber is repeatedly brought back to question himself.

Excerpt from:

http://www.gurdjieff.org/moore1.htm