"You do not have a body—you are asleep within it. You treat it as a machine, yet you do not even know how this machine truly functions. Your body, your thoughts, your emotions—all operate without your awareness, like a clock that ticks but does not know time."

"The first task is to wake up inside the body. To sense it, to feel it—not as an idea, but as a living, breathing reality. Right now, you are fragmented. Your mind wanders, your emotions pull you, your body is sluggish or tense. But when you bring attention to your body—not in thought, but in direct sensation—you begin to gather yourself. You become whole."

"Try this: right now, feel your hands. Not by moving them, not by looking at them, but by sensing them from within. Stay with this sensation. Now feel your feet. Then your breath. As you do this, something changes, yes? A certain presence awakens. This is the beginning of real work. Until you live inside your body with awareness, you will remain a stranger to yourself."

"Remember: to be present in the body is to be present in life. Without this, all else is mere theory." #Gurdjieff