Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
The conflict is in man. Unless it is resolved there, it cannot be resolved anywhere else. The politics is within you; it is between the two parts of the mind. A very small bridge exists. If that bridge is broken through some accident, through some physiological defect or something else, the person becomes split, the person becomes two persons and the phenomenon of schizophrenia or split personality happens.
If the bridge is broken - and the bridge is very fragile - then you become two, you behave like two persons. In the morning you are very loving, very beautiful; in the evening you are very angry, absolutely different. You dont remember your morning...how can you remember? Another mind was functioning - and the person becomes two persons. If this bridge is strengthened so much that the two minds disappear as two and become one, then integration, then crystallization, arises.
What George Gurdjieff used to call the crystallization of being is nothing but these two minds becoming one, the meeting of the male and the female within, the meeting of yin and yang, the meeting of the left and right, the meeting of logic and illogic, the meeting of Plato and Aristotle.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking improves relationships. Kindness in giving creates love.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage
and true progress.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Live in balance between the head and the heart by filling your feelings with wisdom and your decisions with love.
