Being brilliant

Mr. Ouspensky likely may have been vain.
He had a powerful intellect and lectured to
a thousand people in Russia before he met
the work and Mr. Gurdjieff. Later after being in
the work for years, someone commented on
seeing Ouspensky again. "Gone, was the
brilliant, whimsical personality". It was replaced
through suffering, by the real person we all
have inside of us.