GURDJIEFF, G.I. – Life is real only then, when I am - Integral Book

during these years, I want, simultaneously with fulfilling the easier partof my task, to renew the actualization of this aim of mine but this time,with the help of the results obtained during these past years from myconstant intensive labors realized in ten big volumes; namely, I intendto continue to give a final polishing to my writings, in order to makethem accessible to the understanding of every average man and, whiledoing this work in the same conditions as before, that is to say, writingin various cafés, restaurants or other public places, always traveling, tobegin simultaneously with this to make these accidental or intentionalsojourns in different centers of contemporary civilization, which satisfythe required conditions, the preparation of the soil for the organizationof the clubs mentioned by me last time.As my present visit here coincides with the moment for creatingconditions which will give me the possibility of undertaking therealization of my plans, I have therefore decided, during the period ofmy stay here among you, to devote all the time left after the fulfillmentof my fundamental task to the organization and opening here of the firstclub of this kind.The opening here in New York, with the participation of peoplecomposing this group of yours, of the first branch, not only in NorthAmerica but in general on Earth, of the main club which will be inFrance at the Chateau du Prieuré, will be in my opinion in all respectsright and objectively just.It will be right and just because the Americans, chiefly you whocompose this group, besides having been for a long time in contact withmy ideas, were the only ones who proved to be grateful to me duringthe hard years of crisis, and you were also the only ones with whom Ihad personal relations after the misfortune which occurred to me, whenI gave my-