George Gurdjieff - Ideas

Ideas

Gurdjieff claimed that people cannot perceive reality in their current states because they do not possess consciousness but rather live in a state of a hypnotic "waking sleep."

"Man lives his life in sleep, and in sleep he dies." As a result of this condition, each person perceives things from a completely subjective perspective. He asserted that people in their typical state function as unconscious automatons, but that one can "wake up" and become a different sort of human being altogether.

Read more about this topic:  George Gurdjieff

Famous quotes containing the word ideas:

    Olympian bards who sung
    Divine ideas below,
    Which always find us young,
    And always keep us so.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    ...I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere in the realm of ideas. I felt that I had within me an undeveloped fount of ideas. I did not know exactly what my ideas were, but whatever they were I wanted to convert people to them.
    Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)

    People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)