Belief is a luxury – only those who have real knowledge have a right to believe; otherwise belief is merely plausible opinion.
- #AROrage
Time is the most important thing next to #awareness. The flow of #time through us gives us an opportunity to extract what we can ... Time does not wait for us to catch everything in the stream, but if we catch enough we shall have enough to ... become enduring.
- #AROrage
I beg myself as well as my readers not to mistake understanding for attainment; and not to imagine, on the strength of their realisation of certain truths, that they possess them, or still less, that they can use them.
- #AROrage
Our being, in which alone truth is possessed, is still a long, long way behind our understanding.
- #AROrage
It is not negative to hate what is odious.
– #AROrage
We fish in time's 'ever-rolling' stream; what we catch is ours, but what we don't is gone. Time does not wait for us to catch everything in the stream, but if we catch enough we shall have enough to form the higher bodies–and thereby become enduring."
- #AROrage
Beings differ in the potentiality of their awareness.
- #AROrage
Contemplation is contact with thought-forms left by other beings interested in objective reason but no statement can be understood without the effort of conscious assimilation. When that which is known is also felt and sensed, we have realization.
- #AROrage
The Enneagram of Gurdjieff
'I' is under the law of three.
'It' is under the law of seven.
- #AROrage
One of the extraordinary things about the Method is that, by its use, a change to normality is brought about indirectly. Through self-sensing, self-remembering, self-observation, a change is brought about in the organism as a change is made in certain chemicals if a catalyst is present.
- #AROrage
Because man was created for the purpose of producing a soul; and a soul may be defined as a being capable of producing Objective Reason."
- #AROrage, quoted by #CSNott in 'Teachings of #Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal'
The psychological human being is a human being with a passion for understanding. The prime need is the presence of that active passion for understanding. Why?
- #AROrage, quoted by #CSNott in 'Teachings of #Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal'
Any attempt to attain superior being directly leads to a psychopathic state.
- #AROrage
Being has to do with the feeling center and depends on knowing and doing. It is the result of the struggle between the affirming and denying parts. "A being is one who feels," and is therefore to be graded by the range and intensity of feeling.
- #AROrage
Pondering is a self-interrogation which consists in stripping off all the answers of association until you finally come to your own essential answer.”
- #AROrage
A.R. Orage
#ARORAGE ON PONDERING
"Pondering is answering questions from essence and answering them practically. One-half the energy of a human being must be spent internally pondering. One-third of one’s time should be spent in pondering.
‘Gurdjieff’s Emissary in New York: Talks and Lectures with A.R. Orage 1924-1931,’ Book Studio The cover is an artistic depiction of Gurdjieff and Orage in earnest conversation outside The Sunwise Turn Bookshop in New York.
Any three-centred being can be co-conscious with God.
- #AROrage, #Gurdjieff -ian
It is not negative to hate what is odious.
- #AROrage
Prayer is wish in three centers, plus effort in three centers.
- #AROrage.
The last degree of esoteric teaching is plain common sense.
- #AROrage
The essence of the highest teachings lies within a simple moment of awareness.
- #KhandroRinpoche
It is not negative to hate what is odious.
- #AROrage
Imagination as we use it, is simply an excess of desire over ability.
- #AROrage
Gurdjieff, New York, 1924
#Gurdjieff says that Americans have more possibilities for good than any other nation, but that they are so at the mercy of wrong ideals brought from Europe & eventually distorted—they have come to power & money so easily—that their civilisation may decay & rot long before it is ripe.
- #AROrage
After this, according to one's gifts, conditions, circumstances and so on, one should become a conscious agent in the functions of the cosmos, which is a total scheme of which we would have a relative comprehension."
- #AROrage
"The birthright of human beings is the desire for self-consciousness, which should appear at the age of majority. At about the age of thirty there should come a sense of the world in which we live, the dawning of cosmic consciousness.
- #AROrage
Never fear to hate the odious.
- #AROrage, a senior student of #Gurdjieff
Sacred dances and posture and movements in series have always been one of the vital subjects taught in #esoteric schools … They have a double aim: to convey a certain kind of knowledge, and to be a means for acquiring an harmonious state of being.
- #AROrage
#ARORAGE ON THE DYNAMICS OF SCALE
"You are either running up the scale or momentarily static or you are running down the scale. The following are the tests. If you are running up the scale there is effort and it is difficult. If you are running down the scale it is easy.
The highest wish, once felt, never can be displaced.
- #AROrage