Unconscious Efforts

How unexamined/unconscious efforts kill you in the long run

internal efforts to stop others judge you negatively efforts to look good so you can relax the former effort internal efforts to make sure you do not suffer making efforts to free yourself from the former effort internal efforts to prevent others to not create pain by effortfully imagining pain and how it might happen and efforting against the movement of imagined pain the internal effort to control the internal state of others so that they do not give you bad news of any sort efforts to make sure you aren’t lazy efforts to not be afraid efforts to prevent lack of confidence from arising efforts to maintain positivity efforts to stop a disturbing thought by further thinking efforts to stop inner tension by further tensing the effort to imagine imaginary scenarios and the internal effort to prevent the same from happening efforting to put off a fire by fighting with smoke and calling it hard work

all unconscious efforts are mere mechanical reactions and, therefore, blind obedience to unconscious force within has nothing to do with exercising autonomy but ignorance conscious effort is a different beast but one which fruits “autonomy” it is the effort to see one’s unconscious efforts and to realize its meaningless wastage and to allow it to drop away as one grows in awareness while unconscious efforts breed misery fail fast and hard in unconscious efforts so that one could relax investment in stupidity and consider the possibility to wake up from mechanicalness.

“If liberation is possible, it is possible only as a result of great labor and great efforts, and, above all, of conscious efforts, towards a definite aim.” — George Gurdjieff

Originally published at http://doyourwork680125939.wordpress.com on July 13, 2021.