First it rains a lot
Before the big heat
While the sun burns
Down on this planet
For humans actually
Destroy their shade
Baking themselves
In dire consequence
Of their own actions
They can try to stop
Yet hardly believe it
They’re responsible
Mostly themselves
Each and everyone
Not some or others
But we, and mostly I
I am — I can — I wish
With my entire being
Not past — nor future
Simply here and now
Starting and ending
Call it soul, and God
Or nothing but being
Sweet light and sound
Realize we can be free
Look way back ahead
Eye to eye at long last
The doors are open
Dare step out now
“Ubuntu” — I am because we are
Life is real only when ‘I am’!
“Only such a man, when he consciously says ‘I am’ — he really is; ‘I can’ — he really can; ‘I wish’ — he really wishes.
When ‘I wish’ — I feel with my whole being that I wish, and can wish. This does not mean that I want, that I need, that I like or, lastly, that I desire. No. ‘I wish.’ I never like, never want, I do not desire anything and I do not need anything — all this is slavery; if ‘I wish’ something, I must like it, even if I do not like it. I can wish to like it, because ‘I can.’
I wish — I feel with my whole body that I wish.
I wish — because I can wish.”
“As the correctness of the functioning proceeding in us of any relatively independent organ depends on the correctness of the tempo of the general functioning of the whole organism, so also the correctness of our life depends on the correctness of the automatic life of all the other external forms of life arising and existing together with us on our planet.
As the general tempo of life on the Earth engendered by the cosmic laws consists of the totality of all the tempos both of our human life and also of all the other external forms of life, therefore, the abnormalities of the tempo of any one form of life, or even only the disharmony, must inevitably evoke abnormality and disharmony in another form of life.”
“If ‘I am’, only then ‘I can’; if ‘I can’, only then do I deserve and have the objective right to wish.
Without the ability to ‘can’ there is no possibility of having anything; no, nor the right to it.”
— Life is real only when ‘I am’, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, pp. 111, 128, 136
Snails love it a lot when it rains
