Develop Yourself and You Develop the World
“If enough individuals can develop themselves, even partially, into genuine, natural men, able to use the real potentialities that are proper to mankind, each such individual would then be able to convince and win over as many as a hundred other men, who would, each in his turn upon achieving development, be able to influence another hundred, and so on…”
–George Gurdjieff (Armenian-born Adept, Teacher and Writer, c.1873-1949)
Harnessing Wisdom and Energy
I get a lot of questions about the way in which I juxtapose a lot of hard science with comments and quotes that I have extracted from a lifetime studying philosophies from many cultures and peoples around the globe.
This is one part of the answer:
“Unless the wisdom of the East and the energy of the West can be harnessed and used harmoniously, the world will be destroyed.”
–George Gurdjieff (Armenian-born Adept, Teacher and Writer, c.1873-1949)
Helping Others to Help Yourself
“If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off her debt: it is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.”
–George Gurdjieff (Armenian-born Adept, Teacher and Writer, c.1873-1949)
Moving In A Circle
“Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.”
–George Gurdjieff (Armenian-born Adept, Teacher and Writer, c.1873-1949
The Third Force
Here’s something that’s hardly ever discussed, yet it is critically important for everything from metaphysics to medicine:
“According to real, exact knowledge, one force, or two forces, can never produce a phenomenon. The presence of a third force is necessary, for it is only with the help of a third force that the first two can produce.”
–George Gurdjieff (Armenian-born Adept, Teacher and Writer, c.1873-1949)
Self Observation
“Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an in….”
–George Gurdjieff (Armenian-born Adept, Teacher and Writer, c.1873-1949)
Self Knowledge
“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
–George Gurdjieff (Armenian-born Adept, Teacher and Writer, c.1873-1949)
