“To possess the right to the name of ‘man’, one must be one. And to be such, one must first of all, with an indefatigable persistence and an unquenchable impulse of desire, issuing from all the separate independent parts constituting one’s entire common presence, that is to say, with a desire issuing simultaneously from thought, feeling, and organic instinct, work on an all-round knowledge of oneself—at the same time struggling unceasingly with one’s subjective weaknesses—and then afterwards, taking one’s stand upon the results thus obtained by one’s consciousness alone, concerning the defects in one’s established subjectivity as well as the elucidated means for the possibility of combatting them, strive for their eradication without mercy towards oneself.”
G. I. Gurdjieff
Beelzebub’s Tales, p. 1209
He set a huge standard for being a man, at the same time, being ordinary.
Remember the story of the american who visited the Prieure met him in the grounds, he thought he was the gardener.
"Me? I man" Mr Gurdjieff
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