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You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.

In truth, there is no such thing as an __ntuitive boundary_ of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself _ only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.

But, it__ not what they think of you that matters, it__ what you think of yourself. If I__ said something mean to them, I wouldn't like myself very much.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature__ larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

If I am not for myself, who will be?

There is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

Don__ force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest; if you are completely honest, live absolutely honestly.

Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

Ego, Identity and Self - the 3 concepts of one's creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing but an empty shell. Understand your 'Self,' for if you don't, then who or what are you?

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

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...

Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life__ secrets. It__ the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. __e are too ego-centered,_ Suzuki tells Cage._ The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away.