Image: Vyacheslav Belov, ‘Nightmare or salvation, nothingness or existence’
Only the inner something was eternal—I, the real self of me. I AM. It was an appearance of His Endlessness to the suffering souls on the planet Purgatory, the coming of the Son of Man.
- #CSNott, #Gurdjieff- ian
Gurdjieff writing 'Beelzebub's Tales' at the Café de la Paix, Paris
Only the inner something was eternal—I, the real self of me. I AM. It was an appearance of His Endlessness to the suffering souls on the planet Purgatory, the coming of the Son of Man.
- #CSNott
Do you think it will be easy to arrive at a knowledge of spiritual things? It means no less than to die to everything.
- Farid Ud'in #Attar, 'The Conference Of Birds' (translated by #CSNott)
In government, in politics, in big business and law, real feelings and real thoughts are not only not necessary, but often a hindrance.
- #CSNott
- quoted in 'Teachings of #Gurdjieff' by #CSNott
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'
... dukes and counts and even kings, as well as tradespeople and peasants, considered it a privilege to be allowed to help in the building of the early cathedrals, hauling the stone and mixing the mortar."
- #CSNott, 'The Teachings of Gurdjieff - A Pupil's Journey'
#CSNOTT ON THE ESOTERIC TRADITION
"... the #esoteric tradition, that hidden, everlasting current that vivifies the life of man and saves him from falling into a permanent state of savage barbarism.
If you wish, you can. Without wishing you never can. Wish is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God. Of course I speak of conscious wish; and with conscious wish, everything comes.
- #CSNott, 'The Teachings of #Gurdjieff - A Pupil's Journey'
#Gurdjieff seldom used the words ‘system’, ‘method’, ‘self-remembering’, ‘self-observation’. Terms of any kind become petrified; by constant use by the formatory apparatus they become expressions without content.
- #CSNott, 'The Teachings of Gurdjieff - A Pupil's Journey'
Every bad thought and feeling reacts on you, on others, and on me, and bad thoughts and feelings keep out life.
- #Gurdjieff, quoted in #CSNott, 'The Teachings of Gurdjieff - A Pupil's Journey'
- quoted in #CSNott, ‘The Teachings of #Gurdjieff - A Pupil's Journey’
-Quoted in ‘Teachings of #Gurdjieff’ by #CSNott, p.8
It was an appearance of His Endlessness to the suffering souls on the planet Purgatory, the coming of the Son of Man."
- #CSNott
"Only the inner something was eternal—I, the real self of me. I AM.
- #CSNott
People in general have no real attention. What they think of as attention is only self-tensing. First you must strive to acquire attention.
- #CSNott
Do you think it will be easy to arrive at a knowledge of spiritual things? It means no less than to die to everything.
- Farid Ud'in #Attar, 'The Conference Of Birds' (tr. #CSNott)
In life, once effort ceases, the movement is downwards.
- #CSNott
