Gurdjieff and the Tomorrow Disease

This is the lastest offering from my husband's cactus garden. It is called echinopsis. I saw the flower in the morning and went and got my camera. I was glad that I hadn't followed my first impulse to put off taking the picture because by the afternoon the flower was closed up and wilted. According to my husband, this plant flowers rarely and briefly.

In Gurdjieff's All and Everything Beelzebub explains our tendency to put things off:

Thanks to this abnormal hope of theirs a very singular and most strange disease, with a property of evolving, arose and exists among them there even until now - a disease called there 'tomorrow.'

He goes on to explain the "terrifying consequences" of this disease on our efforts to deliver ourselves from "some very undesirable consequences" that we all possess. Which brings me to the purpose of this post...I recently noticed on the Gurdjieff Legacy website that Mr. Patterson's September retreat is his last one that is going to be open to the public; after that, all of his retreats will only be open to his students. So, if you have been thinking that on some 'tomorrow' you wanted to attend one of his retreats, now is the time to do it. Here's the link to register. 

Comments

[A Lark]

What a real and dramatic way to illustrate the 'tomorrow disease' as in other time frames, geological for example, we are to the earth as the cactus blossom is to the day. Thank you.