Stephen’s Blog Posts

A collection of quotes from a variety of sources.Don't wait for the Last Judgment, my friend.  It happens every day.  ~ Albert Camus Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.  ~Alexander Solzehnitsyn Once you see your nature, sex is basically...

Including a collection of anonymous quotes, plus quotes from Confucius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lao Tzu and Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī.If you want small changes, change your behavior. If you want big change, change your attitude. Know yourself, and your neighbor will not...

Proverbs from Africa, China, Japan, Kurdistan and PortugalIt is not work that kills, but worry. Much silence makes a mighty noise. Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. The problem of the thief is not how to steal the chief's bugle, but where to blow it. When an...

These sayings come from Gurdjieff's pupils, Alfred Orage, Peter Ouspensky, Maurice Nicoll, Jane Heap and Jeanne de Salzmann.Be a pianist, not a piano. Beings differ in the potentiality of their awareness. Consider the 'sly' man; he tries to be aware always. Controlled...

Sayings from Gurdjieff's writings: Mullah Nassr Eddin (from the Tales), Gurdjieff's Father (from Meetings With Remarkable Men), Gurdjieff (from Life is Real Only Then When "I am." and of Gurdjieff, from other sources.'Struth! What might not happen in this world! A...

These "Commandments for living" were, reportedly, given by Gurdjieff to Reyna D’Assia. They were published in a book entitled The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky.Accept that nothing belongs to you. Admit that someone else may be superior to you. Always...

These aphorisms are perhaps the most commonly quotes ones from Gurdjieff.From the Study House at The Prieuré. Like what “it” does not like. The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do. The worse the conditions of life the more productive the work, always...