What are you aiming at, son?

“You must have an aim, a serious aim,” said Gurdjieff. And of course that is true. Without an aim, we are loose cannons. We live eccentrically, inadvertently.

Make me proud

Whomever we wish to impress, we are enslaved by.

Cement shoes

The chief impediment to inner peace: unnecessary thought. If it’s negative, it’s unnecessary.

Amazing

We can cope with anything that happens. The difficulty, anyway, is not what happens but that we are unaware of our assets.

Man up

Whenever you are confronted with a challenge, welcome it. You’ve been identified, selected, called out from the ranks. “The true man is revealed in difficult times.”