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Title: Voice At The Borders Of Silence by William Segal, Marielle Bancou-Segal ISBN: 1-58567-442-7 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Sounds of Silence
Comment: What are we to make of William Segal? Born in 1904 to parents of modest means, his early life followed the classic trajectory of the self made American man. After attending college in New York on a football scholarship, he went into the magazine business and quickly became a successful entrepreneur, amassing a stable of design and lifestyle magazines. Business wealth brought him material rewards, the Park Avenue apartment, the country place in New Jersey, the house on Fire Island.
So far, a typical American success story. But there were other facets to William Segal. He was a painter of some talent who kept at it for over 60 years. He focused mainly on self portraits, part of his life's real work, which was looking for answers to the two big questions: who am I, and why am I here? His search led him to Ouspensky and eventually to Gurdjieff, and he stayed involved with the movement that grew up around Gurdjieff's teaching for over half a century. He also met and maintained friendships with several Buddhist scholars and spirtual leaders, from TD Suzuki to the Dalai Lama.
Throughout his long life (he lived to 96) he remained "the man in the marketplace" living fully in this world while seeking ways to transcend it. In one remarkable passage he talks about visiting and practicing at zen monasteries in Japan and then racing back to his day job as a business consultant to a Japanese conglomerate. He never ducked the hard question of how a material man engages in yet moves past the snares and delusions of everyday life. Indeed, one wishes the book talked in more depth about how he reconciled the grasping, sharp-elbowed world of American business with the state of non-grasping, timeless awaress he sought in his zen practice.
The secret to a rich life, this wise man tells us, is paying attention. Being fully engaged with your surroundings means you're always sitting down to a sensory banquet that nourishes your soul. Live in the world, says Segal, but learn to be still and to be receptive.
The book tells Segal's story through mix of photos, interviews, paintings, and reminiscences by the author and his distinguished friends. Reading it is like being led deeper into the woods until you come to a empty meadow, utterly still. In that stillness you can learn something truly important.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Invaluable Addition to texts on the Gurdjieff Work
Comment: There is a wide variety of material in this book which consists of autobiographical fragments by William Segal, photographs, transcripts of interviews, previously published materials and exchanges between Mr. Segal and others who have spent decades seriously practicing Gurdjieff's Teaching. Of particular interest to those who have an interest in these ideas might be the exchanges on the future of the Gurdjieff Teaching and some of the "meditative practices". An inspiring book on many levels.
Rating: 5
Summary: Priceless
Comment: This book is a priceless gift to humanity.
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Title: Gurdjieff: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) by Sophia Wellbeloved ISBN: 0415248981 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
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Title: Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas by John Shirley ISBN: 1585422878 Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 25 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Prize is Eternity: Foundations of Inner Work in the Fourth Way by Girard Haven ISBN: 0964578247 Publisher: Ulysses Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (Harvest Book) by P. D. Uspenskii, Marianne Williamson, P. D. Ouspensky ISBN: 0156007460 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Voices in the Dark: Esoteric, Occult & Secular Voices in Nazi-Occupied Paris, 1940-44 by William Patrick Patterson ISBN: 1879514907 Publisher: Arete Communications Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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