“Go out one clear starlit night to some open space and look up at the sky, at those millions of worlds over your head. Remember that perhaps on each of them swarm billions of beings, similar to you or perhaps superior to you in their organization. Look at the Milky Way. The earth cannot even be called a grain of sand in this infinity. It dissolves and vanishes, and with it, you…”

 “Before all these worlds ask yourself what are your aims and hopes, your intentions and means of fulfilling them…”

 (G.I. Gurdjieff; Views From the Real World; pp 58)