"I'd like to share a set of sayings from the Gurdjieffian tradition that will be a great help as you contemplate the self-remembering process. You might want to pause now or later and spend some time reflecting on each one.
• "Meditation is founded upon exploring a total understanding of yourself — a direct seeing of who you are in the present moment, without images and experiences and ideas getting in the way.
• "Remember that you are what observes, not what you observe.
• "There is no greater miracle than being conscious in this present moment. Everything begins and ends with this.
• "Self-remembering is an eighteen-hour-a-day endeavor. You cannot understand self-remembering in thirty minutes. You will want to live with the process every moment of the day.
• "The ability of human beings to look within and remember directly who they are is the great mystery of organic life on earth.
• "You cannot be present at your destination if you're not present en route. So do everything you can to be present — now.
• "Life is real only when you are. And you are real only when you are awake to your own inner presence.
• "Try not to twist the present into something it is not. Surrender to it, experience it, and accept it on its own irrefutable terms.
• "We are neither the perceived nor the perceiver--we are the witness that experiences the perception. Self-remembering is not a sensation. William Blake said, 'I look through my eyes, not with them.'
• "Have a look at your watching, your witnessing. It is unlimited. It has no beginning, it has no end . . . It is formless, eternal, infinite . . . it is you.
• "In the end nothing stands between you and self-remembering but yourself."
