One of my spiritual teachers was the late John G. Bennett (1897-1974). He was an Englishman who off and on lived and traveled in the Near & Middle East, and he was really impacted by experiences in Islamic countries in the early 1950’s. Here’s a note from his published journals, “I began to be occupied with… sacrifice and trouble for the sake of work. As these thoughts proceeded in me, there was suddenly added the phrase, ‘the effects of a cause must always re-enter the cause’. (from Gurdjieff’s All & Everything, p. 1135)… [and] I saw afresh the whole significance of this ‘world law’ and its application to sacrifice and trouble. Wherever the sacrifice issues from, thither it will return. If it comes from our silly egoism and desire to be seen and appreciated, these will be strengthened by it. But if it comes from a sincere feeling of need to serve the work, then the result will give life to our own individuality… If we wish to carry with us something that can become immortal, then our actions must issue from an act of will that is not confined to this fugitive experience of life in space and time.” – Volume 2, p. 173. The journals were published in two volumes as “Journeys in Islamic Countries” – https://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Islamic…/dp/1881408124
“this fugitive experience of life in space and time”
July 19, 2016
David Salminen 
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