P.T. Mistlberger > Quotes

“No growth is possible,’ he would say, ‘without conscious labour and voluntary suffering.’ By this he meant that we cannot attain something without payment, or sacrifice—not in the sense of morbid self-punishment, but rather in the necessity of giving something up in order to make space for something new. What we ‘give up’ can be something intangible like low self-worth, or even laziness, or some other character defect like vanity or pride.”
― P.T. Mistlberger, Three Dangerous Magi: Osho Gurdjieff Crowley: Osho, Gurdjieff, Crowley

“Man is a machine. All his deeds, actions, words, thoughts, feelings, convictions, and habits are the result of external influences. Out of himself a man cannot produce a single thought, a single action. Everything he says, does, thinks, feels—all this happens. Man is born, lives, dies, builds houses, writes books, not as he wants to, but as it happens. Everything happens. Man does not love, hate, desire—all this happens.3”
― P.T. Mistlberger, Three Dangerous Magi: Osho Gurdjieff Crowley: Osho, Gurdjieff, Crowley

“Who you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.”
― P.T. Mistlberger, Three Dangerous Magi: Osho Gurdjieff Crowley: Osho, Gurdjieff, Crowley

“In the classic sense of the term, ‘mysticism’ is connected to the idea of merging with the divine to such an extent that the sense of individuality is abolished. The expression ‘you cannot attain to God - once you do so, *you* are no more, only God is - may be said to be the essential basis of mysticism. The mystical experience itself is ‘trans-rational’ and can only be communicated via myth, symbol, or metaphor - a clear distinction with esotericism, which contains teachings that can in fact be directly and rationally transmitted.”
― P.T. Mistlberger, The Inner Light: Self-Realization Via the Western Esoteric Tradition