A NORMAL BEING WISHES TO LIVE FOREVER

A NORMAL BEING WISHES TO LIVE FOREVER

- G. I. GURDJIEFF

A normal being wishes to live forever.  A normal man is one who not only has actualized his inherited potentialities, but has freed himself from his subjectivity

This wish to live constitutes a being.  Once being alive there is no choice, we must live forever.

Your powers are to actualize, to be aware of your presence. This is your money in the bank, your cash, your earning ability.

Next to awareness, the most important thing is Time.  The  flow of time through us gives us our chance to extract what we can.  Time is a three-fold stream, passing through our three centers.  We fish in this stream, what we catch is ours, what we don't is gone.  Time does not wait for us to catch all in the stream, if we catch enough, we have enough to create the three bodies, and become enduring.

Time is the sum of our potential experience, the totality of our possible experiences.  We live our experiences successively, this is the first dimension of time.

To be able to live experiences simultaneously is adding another or second dimension of time.

To be aware of this simultaneity is called solid Time, or the third dimension of Time.

I beg you, before starting on this journey to question yourself. You are plunging into the dark; here is a little lamp; I show you how to rub it; but make sure you know how to rub it.

Suffering is the price of endlessness.

Conscious labor consists of having an objective in life, as a LIFE aim, an Aim which can be pursued the whole of your life.  It does not depend on the vicissitudes of life.  It is the aim for which you took the trouble to be born.  You are an  being if you keep this aim.

If you keep this aim through this life you will have an aim strong enough to persist after this life, an aim big enough to persist through an immortal existence.