Three days later they both came back. That night
when Gurdjieff ’s attendant was serving him his sup-
per, he asked, “Sir, why did you bring him back?”
Gurdjieff answered in a very low voice, “You’re not
going to believe this, and this is just between you and
me; you must tell no one. I pay him to stay here.”
I told that story at a meditation center, and later
they wrote me a letter saying, “We used to have two
people here helping and there was a lot of harmony.
Now we have four and the trouble is beginning. So
every day we ask each other, ‘Is somebody paying you
to be here?’”
86 Be Grateful to Everyone