“Perhaps those who seem asleep today, in 20 years something will be awakened in them and those who nwo seem so eager will forget in 10 days. We have to let everyone hear, the result does not belong to us.”
–Gurdjieff

“No doubt those unacquainted with inner conflicts–the “Holy War” that one must wage day in and day out with oneself–have not experienced these moments of grace and letting go, and so they develop a rigid, idealized, and false representation of self-mastery.”
–Tchekhovitch, A Master in Life

The intuition that we are seen by an intelligence and probity far beyond us insistently recurs in spiritual tradition, from Psalm 139–“Lord, thou hast searched me and known me”–to Václav Havel’s conviction in our own day that we are known and judged by what he called “Being.”
–Roger Lipsey, Gurdjieff Reconsidered

It has even been shat during the Occupation, there were meetings [in Paris] attended without incident by Resistance workers and Nazi officials, interested for the moment not by the war but by Gurdjieff.
–Roger Lipsey, Gurdjieff Reconsidered

“I wish to be, I can be, I have the right to be, I have the ability to be. I swear to myself that this will never be for my personal profit, but to help others. I wish to be, to help others. This is understood to be a vow.”
–Gurdjieff prayer shared with children

“All the time he was talking to me, I felt very strangely that a quite different conversation was taking place between us. He was really telling me what I wanted to know about objective love. I began to understand how the greater does not preclude the lesser, but includes it and, in fact, the greater could not exist without the lesser. I saw how his love was not at all a personal love, but love for all humanity, for all living beings, perhaps even for all creation. Although this was something quite beyond anything I could aspire to or attempt to understand, when I came into contact with it, as I did now, it could only appear to me as personal love, answering the personal love that was the best I had to offer.”
–Rina Hands on Gurdjieff

“Make love your aim and begin to look for direction.”
—Early Talks 1914-1931

“Real love is the basis of all, the foundations, the source. The religions have perverted and deformed love. It was by love that Jesus performed miracles. Real love joined with magnetism. All accumulated vibrations create a current. This current brings the force of love. Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallise it, it becomes a power – the greatest power in the world. Later you will study magnetism in books, no matter which, it will give you material. And with love as a basis, you will be able to cure paralytics and make the blind see.”
—Early Talks 1914-1931