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D: I once asked a general questionabout detachment. How can one acquireit?Gurdjieff: That's the only thing weare talking about. It's necessary tohave an ideal. Create an ideal in yourself. This will free you fromyour automatic attachments. Thinkabout this consciously and also automatically. This will growand will constitute in you anew center of gravity.D: Isn't it easier to detachoneself from material thingsthan from feelings?Gurdjieff: It's the same thing.All this has the same value. You are attached to one center or another.It is necessary to look at this withoutphilosophizing. You have neither an idealnor a serious aim. You are a complex machine. You must establish a realcontact with something. You have no connection to anything; thingsconnect to you. You are their slave.Do you understand? It's not you whorelates to things, it's they who relate to you, it's they who command.Not very happy, eh? Excuse me. It's impossible always to be polite. Absolutely impossible. If you want tosay the truth you can't always be polite.This makes artists angry, but not onlythem. I have explained this in Beelzebub's Tales.A: Sir, one day you spoke here aboutdividing one's day into two parts: onepart for work, the other for life. Now,I have noticed that my life disturbs mywork and, on the other hand, that my workdisturbs my life. That is to say, associations about work accumulate,which not only do not serve life butget in the way. Moreover, these associations spoil everything Ireceive. What I understand helpsfor a day or two, but then associations interfere and I am no longer able to doanything. How can this bechanged?Gurdjieff: First of all, I didn'tsay to divide your day in half; I didn't say to make two halves.A: I said two parts. I didn't mean to say two equal parts.Gurdjieff: All right. What I meantto say is that it's necessary to getused to preparing yourself for work.A definite time during your day shouldbe devoted to work. You don't do anythingelse. You sacrifice everything else to it.In the beginning, as long as you are notcapable of working, you don't try anything special, you don't work.But you think about work. Or youread something about the Work.You read, speak and think aboutit. For example, you take the timebetween eleven o'clock and noon. Youallow all the associations about workto flow. This is not yet work, but you are preparing the ground. You accept thisidea that a certain period of time shouldbe devoted to work. And if a work is givento you, or if you give yourself a work, you will do it during the time that you have already prepared for this. The placewill be made. It is in DOING that a manunderstands, and you will measure the result this brings you. You say youwork. You think this. But here no one works yet; it is still child'splay. It is only a little betterthan "titillation." It is a newkind of titillation. In realwork, the forehead is drenched in sweat which also flowsfrom the heels.--Gurdjieff--Questions and Responses

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