Exist as You Exist from Gurdjieff's All and Everything, p. 78 So in the meantime, exist as you exist. Only do not forget one thing, namely, at your age it is indispensably necessary that every day, at sunrise, while watching the reflection of its splendor, you bring about a contact between your consciousness and the various unconscious parts of your general presence. Try to make this state last ...

I am, I can, I wish from Gurdjieff's Life is real only then, when 'I am, ' pp. 110-111 For an approximate definition of the first of these three human impulses which must arise and manifest themselves in a real man, one might employ the English word can, yet not in the sense in which this word is used in the contemporary English language but in the sense in which Englishmen used it before what ...

Like What It Does Not Like from Gurdjieff's Views from the Real World, pp. 243-245 There are two kinds of love: one, the love of a slave; the other, which must be acquired by work. The first has no value at all; only the second has value, that is, love acquired through work. This is the love about which all religions speak. If you love when it loves, it does not depend on you and so has no ...

No News from Gurdjieff's Life is real only then, when 'I am, ' pp. 103-5 This benevolent advice of mine to you Americans, composing in the given case this group, and who became, thanks to a series of accidentally arranged circumstances of life, my nearest essential friends, consists in indicating the categorical necessity that each of you should cease entirely, at least for three months, the ...

Separating the Mind from the Essence from Gurdjieff's Views from the Real World, pp. 148-150 As long as a man does not separate himself from himself he can achieve nothing, and no one can help him. To govern oneself is a very difficult thing--it is a problem for the future; it requires much power and demands much work. But this first thing, to separate oneself from oneself, does not require ...

Walking with Momentum from Gurdjieff's Views from the Real World Pp 116 & 161 It is a very interesting thing, and you must try to understand what I am saying about momentum. When I make a sudden movement, energy flows in, but when I repeat the movement the momentum no longer takes energy. (He demonstrates.) At the moment when energy has given the initial push, the flow of energy stops and ...

Ask Yourself from Gurdjieff's Views from the Real World, pp. 56-59 The more a man studies the obstacles and deceptions which lie in wait for him at every step in this realm, the more convinced he becomes that it is impossible to travel the path of self-development on the chance instructions of chance people, or the kind of information culled from reading and casual talk. At the same time he ...

Blending from Gurdjieff's Life is real only then, when 'I am, ' p. 140 Well then, I am now sitting among you, as you see, and although I am looking at Mr. L yet I am intentionally directing all my attention, which you are not able to see, on my foot, and consequently any manifestation Mr. L produces within my field of vision I see only automatically--my attention, which at the present moment ...

Dualities ( Seal of Solomon ) from Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous, pp. 280-82 Gurdjieff: The understanding of symbols can be approached in the following way: In studying the world of phenomena a man first of all sees in everything the manifestation of two principles, one opposed to the other, which in conjunction or in opposition, give one result or another, that is, reflect the ...

External Considering from Gurdjieff's Views from the Real World Page 94-96 Everyone is in great need of one particular exercise, both if one wants to continue working and for external life. We have two lives, inner and outer life, and so we also have two kinds of considering. We constantly consider. When she looks at me, I feel inside a dislike of her, I am cross with her, but externally I am ...

I Am from Gurdjieff's Life is real only then, when 'I am, ' pp. 134-137 For the correct understanding of the significance of this first assisting exercise, it is first of all necessary to know that when a normal man, that is, a man who already has his real I, his will, and all the other properties of a real man, pronounces aloud or to himself the words I am, then there always proceeds in him, ...

Sounding from Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous, p. 304 On one occasion, in connection with the description of exercises in concentration and bringing the attention from one part of the body to another, G. asked: When you pronounce the word 'I' aloud, have you noticed where this word sounds in you We did not at once understand what he meant. But we very soon began to notice that when ...

Elder from Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous, p. 294 Gurdjieff: Speaking in general it must be understood that the enneagram is a universal symbol. All knowledge can be included in the enneagram and with the help of the enneagram it can be interpreted. And in this connection only what a man is able to put into the enneagram does he actually know, that is, understand. What he cannot put ...

Life Story from Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous, pp. 247, 249 Gurdjieff: Some of you think you can see types but they are not types at all that you see. In order to see types one must know one's own type and be able to 'depart' from it. In order to know one's own type one must make a good study of one's life, one's whole life from the very beginning; one must know why, and how, things ...

Self-observation from Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous, pp. 146-49 Gurdjieff: When a man comes to realize the necessity not only for self-study and self-observation but also for work on himself with the object of changing himself, the character of his self-observation must change. He has so far studied the details of the work of the centers, trying only to register this or that ...

Three Finger from Gurdjieff s Life is real only then, when 'I am, ' pp. 112-116 Based on my own experience, I consider it absolutely necessary to note here that the difficulty of a clear understanding of all this without a long and deep reflection and, in general, the complication of the process of standing on the right path for the obtaining in one's common presence of factors for engendering ...