Energy

Mr. Gurdjieff said that to create an astral body, it will
take all the fine energy that one's body can produce.

Saving energy

Part of our work is conserving our energy,
which can be lost through excessive laugher,
moodiness, negativity, loud shouting and anger.

No one can do it for you

You have to make your work your own.
No one can do it for you.

Purgatory

Purgatory for us,
is the inability to do.

Choice or programming?

Active self questioning, why do you
hate, judge, love, spend, save, think,
dress the way you do? Is it choice,
or the environment that made you?

Question

Part of the introduction to Mr. Gurdjieff's book,
"Meetings...." states, "Mr. Gurdjieff calls
everything back into question".

The problem with the world.

Mr. Gurdjieff said that the problem with the world is that men
are not men, and women are not women.

Be your own King

Mr. Gurdjieff indicated that one must develop one's
inner king, be king of one's checkbook, king of how
you manage your life. Be a man.

Like Donkey

Mr. Gurdjieff said: "It is neccessary have plan
and not live day to day like donkey".

Stale moments

There are many moments when
one's work becomes stale, the trick is
keep going.

Resilience

Many times in the work,
one can get stuck. You have to
keep going. One cannot evolve in the
long term without resilience.

In a single day

Mr. Gurdjieff said that everything,
can be seen in a single day.
Your weaknesses, your strengths.
It is all there. You just need to be
conscious enough.

Acceptance

Acceptance will also be one of the skills to learn
on your journey, because without it, you cannot go
forward, acceptance is perhaps the most important
ingredient in the new self you are building.

The threshold

The threshold you will reach, as Mr. Gurdjieff
said, "After long and prolonged efforts", is that
you will achieve the quiet intensity that is required
to work and overcome your weaknesses. Until that
point is reached, you will be nothing but excuses.

The actual reality is, that you will not change

The actual reality is, that you will not change,
unless.....
You go through the laborious taks of observing
yourself, until you know how you work as a mechanism.
Then you will reach the threshold of the next stage.