24-11-2020
“A man will renounce any pleasure you like but he will not give up his suffering. Man is made in such a way that he is never so much attached to anything as he is to his suffering.” —George I. Gurdjieff
Over the decades, countless times, I have observed: When a real solution is presented to people, instead of executing and effectuating that solution, they almost always choose to perpetuate the problem which they say they want to solve.
Thus, the same problem, the same suffering, persists, in different guises and disguises, in indi-viduals’ lives, in organizations and institutions, in communities and societies, and in the world.
The real problem is not that you have problems, or the real suffering is not that you experience suffering, but that you are unable to solve the same problem, or that you are unable to overcome the same suffering.
There are few exceptional people, organizations, and communities that take on the challenge of executing, effectuating, and enacting a fundamental lasting solution.
They become the solution. They become resilient and antifragile against problems that always arise in life, in business, and in society.
To be the solution of this kind in this way requires a wisdom, and to develop this kind of wisdom requires that you grow and evolve to a higher level of consciousness by letting go of your known self-identity and familiar lifeworld.