“One must do everything one can and then say ‘God have mercy!” ~ Gurdjieff

When he was dying, Gurdjieff's grandfather told him to remember one thing: "...if you want to do any bad thing, postpone it for tomorrow; and if you want to do something good, do it immediately. If somebody insults you and you feel angry, tell him that you will come come back after twenty four hours to answer him."

 Gurdjieff said that advice transformed his whole life. He took the advice seriously and experimented with it. When someone insulted him or said something about him, he would tell the person that he'd come back in twenty four hours to respond because he'd promised his grandfather to do that.  He found that  within twenty four hours he always either concluded the person was right  or was wrong. If right, even though whatever was said about him seemed wrong initially, he had to admit it was true. If they were right, Gurdjieff would go and thank the person and tell them they had
pointed out something true about his being that was not clear to him before. He told them they made him conscious about himself and said he was immensely grateful to them for this help. Or, if after twenty four hours  Gurdjieff concluded that the comments truly had nothing to do with him and the person was absolutely wrong he would not go back because as there was no point in responding at all. When something is completely wrong it is just that, wrong.

"If you try to answer every wrong done to you, you will waste your entire life." Osho

Try: Do not express negative emotion.
Be at Peace
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(Thank you to Peter Holleran for his "George Gurdjieff - Mysterious Trickster" and to Osho for inspiring this post.)