There Is Nothing New Under The Sun

Man loves complexity and calls it knowledge. Are there not many people interested in the mahatmas of the Himalayas, are there not many interested in the holy souls in remote places of Persia, many who look for a master in the center of Australia? Perhaps next year an article will appear declaring that a great [...]

Awe…

When they lose their sense of awe, people turn to religion. When they no longer trust themselves, they begin to depend upon authority. Tao Te Ching

Even To Know Love …

IS LOVE best likened to Night or Day, Light or Darkness–I do not know.  Perhaps it were best likened to the Sun, which causes both. To know Love needs no great depth in a person, but to understand it–though but a little…. While we must strive toward the understanding of all else, Love carries with [...]

Goodness Has No Motive

Obviously, goodness has no motive because all motive is based on the self; it is the egocentric movement of the mind. So what do we mean by goodness? Surely, there is goodness only when there is total attention. Attention has no motive. When there is a motive for attention, is there attention? If I pay [...]

Man Lives His Life In Sleep And In Sleep He Dies

Man lives his life in sleep, and in sleep he dies. As a result of this condition, each person perceives things from a completely subjective perspective. Gurdjieff stated that maleficent events such as wars and so on could not possibly take place if people were more awake. He asserted that people in their typical state [...]

A Chance To Grow

We cannot mould the soul, but we can mould the channels through which the soul expresses itself. We can develop the attributes of the soul and lead those attributes–train them–to do those things which make for goodness and love. The soul should be given more freedom. It should not be so closeted within the body [...]

Memory Has No Life In Itself

The idea is the result of the thought process, the thought process is the response of memory, and memory is always conditioned. Memory is always in the past, and that memory is given life in the present by a challenge. Memory has no life in itself; it comes to life in the present when confronted [...]

The Formula “Know Thyself”

The words and notions of conversational language become dead and empty, conveying nothing to him who does not carry such knowledge within himself. In the same way as the sensation of tooth-ache cannot be imparted to one who has not experienced it, and just as the difference of colours cannot be conveyed to one blind [...]

No Longer The Knower Of truth, But The Truth Itself

 Truth belongs to the soul and the soul knows it; and as soon as the truth is spoken, the soul recognizes it. It is not new, not foreign to it. We live in the midst of illusion from morning till evening when we go to sleep. What we do not know is the illusion in [...]

Ideas Are Not Truth

It is only when the mind is free from idea that there can be experiencing. Ideas are not truth; and truth is something that must be experienced directly, from moment to moment. It is not an experience which you want, which is then merely sensation. Only when one can go beyond the bundle of ideas, [...]