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Every verb in that list is a verb of use. None of them is a verb of worship.

"There is not and there cannot be any choice of
the people who come into touch with the 'ways.'
In other words, nobody selects them, they select
themselves, partly by accident and partly by having
a certain hunger. Whoever is without this hunger
cannot be helped by accident. And whoever
has this hunger very strongly can be brought by
accident to the beginning of a way in spite of all
unfavorable circumstances.
A man, if he is hungry, has a chance to come into
contact with the beginning of a way. But besides
hunger still other 'rolls' are necessary. Otherwise a
man will not see the way. Imagine

The product is mortal.
But the operator is the only thing that compounds.

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." – Blaise Pascal
The instinct to withdraw in order to transform is as old as recorded ambition. In the third century, the Desert Fathers walked out of the cities of Egypt and into the sand because they understood that environment beats intention. One of them, Abba Moses, compressed the entire concept into a single line of advice:
"Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything."

You know, brother, how we breathe:
we breathe the air in and out. On this
is based the life of the body and on this
depends its warmth.
So, sitting down in your cell, collect
your mind, lead it into the path of the
breath along which the air enters
in, constrain it to enter the heart
together with the inhaled air,
and keep it there.
Keep it there but do not leave it
silent and idle;
instead give it the following
prayer:
LordJesus Christ, Son of God,
have mercy on me.

Write down one prediction every day, with a date and a confidence level, and check it later.
Takes maybe ninety seconds. And it would quietly put me ahead of an enormous share of people, because almost nobody does it — not executives, not pundits, not most scientists. Humans run on vibes about their own judgment. They remember their hits, forget their misses, and retroactively edit what they "always knew." So their model of their own accuracy never improves, no matter how smart they are or how much they read.
The person who keeps a scored prediction log gets something rare: a real calibration

If I had to build a whole book around one principle, it would be this: you cannot think your way to an accurate view of yourself or the world from inside your own head — you have to build external feedback loops and then actually submit to them.
Most self-improvement books fail because they're closed systems. They give you a framework, you apply it in your imagination, you feel insight, and nothing changes — because the feeling of insight is generated by the same mind that produced the problem. There's no error signal coming in from outside. The person journaling about their flaws is grading t

Not many will agree: Epstein killed himself
Support the idea of **inner separation** (dividing the false from the true) as the necessary step toward real spiritual unity and awakening.

The Demiurge (often called Yaldabaoth, Samael, or “the Lion-faced one”) is portrayed as the creator of the physical universe.
This God was not evil in the absolute sense, but flawed and deluded — a cosmic tyrant who genuinely believes he is the highest deity and traps souls in matter.

To begin to wake up requires a whole new shift of orientation from the seemingly so powerful but actually helpless ego-will to the undeveloped capacity to see ourselves objectively at last. This new step has to be the ability to focus our attention on our daily self-deception. With adroitness and subtlety Lord Pentland brings out that we can begin to become fitfully and unexpectedly aware of what we really look like. We can begin to catch tiny glimpses of just how total our fraudulence really is. When it is possible to keep some small amount of attention free from being totally immersed in wha

From birth to death we are in the grip of suggestion, fashion, habit, greed, fear, opportunism and self-and-group-interest.
Where in all this is there room for objective conscience and individual responsibility?

The primary source is Lord Pentland's essay of that title, and it's freely available on the Gurdjieff Foundation's site: — it's a reflection on the relationship of religion to money, arguing that money originated as a symbol replacing food in sacrificial communion rituals, binding loyalty between individuals and covenant with the deity, and that this significance has eroded until money now functions almost exclusively on a material level. Worth reading in full — the essay's actual argument (money as degraded sacrament, transactions as depersonalized former bonds of loyalty) is considerably mo

wealth comes from doing exactly what you want, exactly your way

You were not put here to be comfortable.
You were put here to move.
Every day you choose comfort over motion, you are casting yourself as an extra.
The camera is rolling whether you like it or not.
The only question is whether you’re directing the film or dying in the background of someone else’s.

What does it mean that successful people lower their cost of resuming after failure?
Concretely, “cost of resuming” is everything standing between you and getting back on track: the shame you have to push through, the sense that you’ve “ruined” the streak, the rebuilt willpower, the logistics of starting again. Successful people engineer that cost down. They treat a missed workout as one data point, not a verdict, so there’s no identity crisis to process before returning. They have a pre-decided rule like “never miss twice,” so resuming requires no fresh decision. They keep the restart small —

Most people are not living.
They are buffering.
They wake up, scroll, react, sleep, repeat.
Background characters in their own lives.
NPCs with better graphics.
This is not a personality trait.
It is a choice.

what happens when you do not want to exist anymore?
do you cease to exist?

How do you look at things, knowing this is the last time you'll be looking at things?

You are not entitled to doubt without a reason. Doubt has to be earned — you can't inquire from nowhere, because inquiry requires a standpoint of settled assumptions you're currently treating as certain.