"A man usually has many unnecessary, imaginary fears. Lies and fears—this is the atmosphere in which an ordinary man lives. Just as the conquest of lying is individual, so also is the conquest of fear. Every man has fears of his own which are peculiar to him alone…"

"The seven-tone scale is the formula of a cosmic law which was worked out by ancient schools and applied to music."

Even reading is a very serious thing when it comes to living ideas, whose source lies at a much higher level than one's own, and which ideas vibrate, as it were, with their own energy...

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Nancy and Charcot

Gurdjieff does mention the School of Nancy and Charcot, and it therefore seems important that the student of his writings have a basic idea of these.

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"...the Fourth Way differs from the other ways in that the principal demand made upon a man in it is the demand for understanding. A man must do nothing that he does not understand, except as an experiment under the supervision and direction of a teacher..."

"The Work speaks almost from its starting-point of the Essence in Man being undeveloped. It defines a growth of Essence as a change in the level of Being: and it speaks very often about making Personality passive so that Essence can develop..."

"The idea of good and evil is sometimes connected with the idea of truth and falsehood. But just as good and evil do not exist for ordinary man, neither do truth and falsehood exist…"

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