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Gurdjieff's training of disciples showed in their control. At his command they suddenly froze their position as if caught by a camera, in arrested motion. A theory of Gurdjieff's was that when one is so tired that collapse is imminent, strength will come from an inner source of reserve power, a second wind. A cardinal point in Gurdjieff's teaching was the breaking of all habits, to free life from slavery to them. Another was exercise to make physical nature obedient and responsive to the will.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 11 : Fanaticism, Money, Powers, Drugs > # 50