To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much. G. I. Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949)
G. I. Gurdjieff Quote – “Pay as quickly as possible for one’s arising and individuality…”
The Fourth Striving: From the beginning of one’s existence, to pay as quickly as possible for one’s arising and individuality, in order afterward to be free to lighten as much as possible the sorrow of our Common Father. G. I. Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949)
G. I. Gurdjieff Quote – “Religion is doing…”
Religion is doing. A man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. G. I. Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949)
G. I. Gurdjieff Quote – “Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West…”
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West, and then seek. G. I. Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949)
G. I. Gurdjieff Quote – “Real ‘I’ is the Messiah…”
Real ‘I’ is the Messiah, for whom the creature is waiting. G. I. Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949)
Thomas Moore Quote – “You have to be faithful to the mystery…”
You have to make your own world, instead of succumbing to the one that presses on you. You have to turn the tables on what appears to be fate or the full weight of society. Against the greatest odds, you have to keep your wits about you and refuse to surrender to anyone or anything less than divine. You have […]
Dan Millman Quote – “If you don’t get what you want, you suffer…”
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get what you don’t want, you suffer. Even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change, free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. […]
Thomas Merton Quote – “Suffering is not a problem…”
It would be a grave error to suppose that Buddhism and Christianity merely offer various explanations of suffering, or worse, justifications and mystifications built on this ineluctable fact. On the contrary both show that suffering remains inexplicable most of all for the man who attempts to explain it in order to evade it, or who thinks explanation itself is an […]
Thomas Merton Quote – “This is a country whose center is everywhere…”
This is a country whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. You do not find it by travelling but by standing still. Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits […]
Thomas Merton Quote – “Instead of consolers, they become torturers…”
The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and “consolers,” offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when Job insists that his sufferings have no explanation and that he cannot discover the reason for them through conventional ethical concepts, his friends turn into accusers, and curse Job as a sinner. Thus, instead of consolers, they become […]
