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Many of us have rediscovered what the ancient spiritual traditions have always known—that there is a mystical reality within ourselves, an unfathomable freedom that our science and our psychology may not comprehend. But we have also discovered that to know about this inner world and to touch it only in the privileged conditions of meditation is not enough. Surely, the next step of the spiritual search in our culture is the capacity to search for this condition concretely in the midst of the life that is common to so many of us in the world today. What do we now understand about this search in life? What difficulties are specific to our present culture? How can we help each other understand our next step? 
from "The Inner Search in Everyday Life"
Excerpts from a conference at the Gurdjieff Foundation in San Francisco.
Our lack of connection to others is inseparable from our lack of connection to the centers of perception within our organism.
In any case, the work asks the pupil to cultivate a new attitude toward difficult relations between people-not immediately trying to resolve these difficulties or explain them or begrudgingly see them as a necessary evil. We need these difficulties for our own awakening-precisely these difficulties with other people.
The conditions of the work community support the difficult (in life it approaches the impossible) voluntary effort to go on struggling with ourselves, even if it just means staying in the same room with someone who is in some way offensive to us. 
I'm going to buy a small piece of land in the country with it. I'll build a log cabin and I'll put in a vegetable garden so I can grow all my own food. I'll live there like that. So I wanted to ask you, would that be a good thing for me to do? Is that a good life?"
"Yes," Mr. Gurdjieff answered, "that good life. For dog. For man, no. You eat, you sleep, live in dream. How could this ever be life for man?"
The Dagara people of Africa consider plants the most intelligent of all earth's creatures because they communicate entirely without speech. Animals rank lower than plants because they sometimes use their voices to convey meaning. Least intelligent of all are human beings because their communication relies so heavily on the spoken word.