Thoughts After Reading Gurdjieff Late At Night
Aphorisms. Thoughts made visible, like a knife quickly palmed from a pocket.
I’ve been busy going through dozens on dozens of notebooks filled with my aphorisms - short, pointed thoughts about a topic. Calling the collection “Fragments”. I’ll be sharing some pages soon. I’ll never get them all collected but I’m making a partial attempt. Just too much of my mind’s dextrous, accumulated over the years.
I came across this collection and sharing these thoughts here.
Thoughts After Reading Gurdjieff Late At Night
A god that is a solution to all things – is a solution to no thing.
What is real can never appear – it only has appearances.
Love is what is left after both entering and exiting desire.
Energy is eternal delight — all that is, has always been.
Sleep is the foundation of all being – like stillness the core of all movement.
Only if we escape from ourselves will we remember ourselves and then become what we really are.
Man is a drop of water that flows in two streams. He is always trying to unite and reconcile the original fall.
All truths are beautiful. Existence knows nothing of randomness, chance and open design.
Passivity is never a way forward unless it is the way forward.
All things come to us. Thoughts come to us – we are but a receiver.
A poem is a claw holding up a mountain with no summit.
Everything in life is in the service of action. Wrong action equals wrong livelihood.
That which ends, never truly began.