GURDJIEFF, G.I. – Life is real only then, when I am - Integral Book

sense and aim of his existence in the process of the actualization ofwhat is foreordained by our COMMON FATHER."In the general process of the variform life on the Earth, as thesesame historical data show us, it was thus at the beginning, and onlyafterwards, when there arose in the psyche of people—chiefly owing totheir vice called laziness—and with each generation there began toincrease in the intensity of its action on their common presence that'something' which automatically enjoins this common presence of theirsconstantly to desire and to strive to attain peace, from then on, with theincreasing in man of the intensity of the action of this fundamental evilof theirs, there began proportionately also to increase their removalfrom the general life proceeding on Earth."As the correctness of the functioning proceeding in us of anyrelatively independent organ depends on the correctness of the tempo ofthe general functioning of the whole organism, so also the correctnessof our life depends on the correctness of the automatic life of all theother external forms of life arising and existing together with us on ourplanet."As the general tempo of life on the Earth engendered by the cosmiclaws consists of the totality of all the tempos both of our human life andalso of all the other external forms of life, therefore, the abnormalitiesof the tempo of any one form of life, or even only the disharmony, mustinevitably evoke abnormality and disharmony in another form of life."I began to speak about such an abstract theme, at first glance distantfrom the one put by me for your immediate interest, chiefly because,wishing today to explain to you the method of one so to say 'cardinal'exercise for the conscious crystallization in you of the first of the sevenpsychic data,