Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am' Quotes

“Namely, to learn why and in what manner my suffering in this instance could assist in the increase of my labor-ability. The beneficent result for me from this “Inner-World Revolution” occurring within me was that from that moment on I could freely, without influence of partial feelings, again think in my habitual way.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am"

“For instance, the development of the power of my thoughts had been brought to such a level that by only a few hours of self-preparation I could from a distance of tens of miles kill a yak; or, in twenty-four hours, could accumulate life forces of such compactness that I could in five minutes put to sleep an elephant.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am"