Sameh

“Never will he understand the sufferings of another, who has not experienced them himself, though he have divine Reason and the nature of a genuine devil!”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

“you have to ‘lose your mind’ before you can come to your senses.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“In my opinion, what will be troublesome for you in all this is chiefly that in childhood there was implanted in you—and has now become perfectly harmonized with your general psyche—an excellently working automatism for perceiving all kinds of new impressions, thanks to which “blessing” you have now, during your responsible life, no need to make any individual effort whatsoever.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

“how there are never crystallized in them any subjective being-convictions formed by their own logical deliberations—as in general is proper to three-brained beings—but instead, only those convictions are crystallized that depend exclusively upon the opinions of others.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson