Something that we do in life without an inside aim will never sustain our Work and the two aims must meet and they must help one another."

- #HenrietteLannes

#HENRIETTELANNES ON THE NECESSITY OF ATTENTION IN THE #FOURTHWAY

"If you do not go deeper into attention, you will achieve neither your inside nor your outside aim. I had from Mr. #Gurdjieff that in all that we do, we must have an inside and an outside aim.

For those who seek to awaken to what they truly are, this new attention has more value than anything else in their lives."

- #HenrietteLannes

#HENRIETTELANNES ON THE QUESTION OF ATTENTION

"This question of attention is very serious, but our experience remains limited. In us a conscious attention is missing.

Being, without #attention, is nothing. Attention is the fire of our #Being.

- #HenrietteLannes, #Gurdjieff -ian

Inner work is inner penetration. Strange? But it is as concrete as that.

- #HenrietteLannes

For those who seek to awaken to what they truly are attention has more value than anything else in their lives.

- #HenrietteLannes

As soon as that spark of energy is used up, he is bound to find himself again in that basement. Struggle is necessary - there is resistance - and then I affirm more."

- 'Inside a Question: Works of #HenrietteLannes, Pupil of G.I. #Gurdjieff,' p. 200

#HENRIETTELANNES ON RESISTANCE AND STRUGGLE

"Try to understand that resistance is according to law. If there is no resistance, there can be no struggle; there can be no new energy. Without production of new energy, there can be no possible contact with higher levels in ourselves.

Every time I am thinking of the teaching, without trying to have some experience of it, I am dreaming.

- #HenrietteLannes, #Gurdjieff- ian

From the beginning, we have to accept the notion that we live in an upside-down world. We are facing an essential aspect of this upside-down world: what should make us, destroys us.

- #HenrietteLannes, #Gurdjieff- ian

If we accept to be defeated a thousand times, we will take up the struggle again and again, the struggle to be.

- #HenrietteLannes, #Gurdjieff -ian

‪Appointments with ourselves are made with an unknown person for whom we are not prepared. We can prepare that person to welcome the visit.‬

‪- #HenrietteLannes, #Gurdjieff- ian

Gradually I know that second after second, I have to sustain that attention, as if it were an antennae feeling right through my limb. It has to go right inside. Inner work is inner penetration. Strange? But it is as concrete as that.”

- #HenrietteLannes, ‘Inside a Question’

#HENRIETTELANNES: 'AN ANTENNAE FEELING RIGHT THROUGH MY LIMB'

“I am like a sleeper who opens a quarter of an eye then goes to sleep again. Attention—as if every cell of my body were called to #attention.

Gurdjieff portrait by Ruodolf Kharatian.

I wish to be
I can be
For the creation of good
For the love of others, my fellow men
To myself I give my word
Always to help them
In so far as I am able.

- #Gurdjieff, quoted by #HenrietteLannes

Try to work regularly and methodically, and to relax all the parts of your body. Try to open yourself to a quality of attention that can penetrate you. Understand that this is more important than anything in the world.

- #HenrietteLannes, #Gurdjieff- ian

For those who seek to awaken to what they truly are, this new #attention has more value than anything else in their lives."

- #HenrietteLannes

#HENRIETTELANNES ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ATTENTION

"This question of #attention is very serious, but our experience remains limited. In us a conscious attention is missing.

Something that we do in life without an inside aim will never sustain our Work and the two aims must meet and they must help one another.”

- #HenrietteLannes, #Gurdjieff-ian

“If you do not go deeper into #attention, you will achieve neither your inside nor your outside aim. I had from Mr. #Gurdjieff that in all that we do, we must have an inside and an outside aim.

- #HenrietteLannes