“If you are working inwardly, Nature will help you. For the man who is working, Nature is a sister of charity; she brings him what he has need of for his work. If you need money for your work, even if you do nothing to get it, the money will come to you from all sides. In another case, Nature will cut off all a man’s resources if it is necessary for his work.
[To another student]: Do you understand? For instance, had you had money a certain evening, you would have gone to a cafe but having none, you stayed at home and worked. Nature is more intelligent than you; she knows better than you which are the best conditions for your work; and if you work, Nature calls on conscious spirits who will arrange for you the conditions you need. For ordinary man, for the man who does not work, there is nothing but chance. But for the man who works, Nature gives him through conscious spirits all that he needs.”
—G.I. Gurdjieff
I have left paws on the starting page
of your new favorite novel, and
last April treated me like a
kiss- and there is a slowing
comfort in the way palms grow
warm when placed together, and
there is a rattling hiccup
in the way the stars watch us
undressing, and there is a final
silence in the way the cotton on
our bed lies still in the blue
before dawn.
