As we enter this gate, we must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility. This shift allows the ego’s face to recede, the true face to emerge, the five faces to integrate, and wisdom to appear. At times, the shift can seem so awkward that we suddenly do not know who we are: we experience an identity crisis and recognize the truth of Gurdjieff’s warning—if we want a quiet life, we must never move out of our repertoire of usual roles. To work on ourselves beyond these roles, we have no choice but to
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