Gurdjieff: Man is like a coach driver

http://www.deeshan.com/images/Gurdjieff2.jpg The reason for this necessary “inner struggle” is that Man is not a unity, but a divided being. Gurdjieff says that “Man is like a rig consisting of passenger, driver, horse and carriage.”20 The carriage is the body, the horse is the emotions, the driver is the mind, and the passenger is the possibility of consciousness, of self-awareness. This imagery comes straight from Plato’s Phaedrus: “Let us then liken the soul to the natural union of a team of winged horses and their charioteer.”