"Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost."

--

Source : Maurice Nicoll (1973). “Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky”

Maurice Nicoll

“The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.”
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”

Source : 1867 'Rousseau and the Sentimentalists', in the North American Review, Jul.
“If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.”
“The natural principle of sowing and reaping is always at work. Whatever you plant , whether physical, spiritual, mental, financial, relational, or emotional, will grow and someday return to you in a multiplied fashion. It can be incredibly good or terribly bad, depending on your seed.”
“Whatever we accomplish in life, if it's solely for our own good, then it doesn't mean that much. The things you do that affect others in a positive way are the ones that count. Whatever facet of life you're in, God has given you a gift; do the best you can with that gift.”
“Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.”
“The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.”
“When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.”

You may also like:

Alan Watts
Philosopher
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist
G. I. Gurdjieff
Teacher
Jeanne de Salzmann
John G. Bennett
Mathematician
P.D. Ouspensky
Robert S. de Ropp
Author
Rodney Collin
Writer
Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher