We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly...

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Self-Knowledge is the Jewel of all Knowledge.”-Serena Jade

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and...

There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and...

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we...

problem”, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.

One of the great self-deceptions–and one of the great foolishnesses–is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people...

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

Language is something you inherit, it’s never just you doing the talking, which helps when you’re pretending.

Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing why. I felt a hole in my heart shaped like...

With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists.

G. I. Gurdieff, “Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson”So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah’s favorite saying. p. 598

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

Lies don’t make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Je sais qu’on ne peut jamais se connaître, mais seulement se raconter.

To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a...

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more...

Understand that when the beast within yousucceeds again in paralyzing into unendingincompletion whatever you again had the temerity totry to makeits triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of itsrectitude. It knows that it aloneknows you.

What we say about ourselves is always a form of fiction.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain – not deal with reality

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those...

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

There is no method of self-knowledge. Seeking a method invariably implies the desire to attain some result – and that is what we all want. We follow authority – if not that of a person,...

Most people do not erode their self-esteem over big issues but over small ones, little acts of betrayal and hypocrisy forgotten (repressed) very quickly. But the computer in your subconscious mind forgets nothing. It records...

I believe I’m very normal. I’m hyper-normal. I’m more normal than anyone else I know. I think my thoughts, my indulgences, my desires, my pleasures may at first appear different, but that is only because...

There’s no weakness as great as false strength.

The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony...

>En cierta ocasión, ta vez cuarenta años atrás, en un hotel mugriento y anónimo al borde del Sahara en la frontera de Mauritania, me depertó el silencio al que se refería el anciano. Pero no...

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human?

…you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you’re estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically...

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

There is no key to open the heart of another – except curiosity.

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one’s self.

Life is a conversation with yourself. And who are you if not the eternal presence behind everything that is, was, and will be? Like this, the blow of each breeze and the beauty of each...

Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what’s more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true...

We see that in the organic world, to the same degree that reflection gets darker and weaker, grace grows ever more radiant and dominant. But just as two lines intersect on one side of a...

I don’t know why, but people seem to be fascinated to learn how some members of society fall through the cracks. I think it’s partly that feeling that… it could happen to anyone. But I...

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the...