Inordinate concern with how one is perceived by others and an insatiable hunger for admiration—wastes enormous psychic energy and ties us in knots of pretense.
Back to Glossary
Fourth Way (Gurdjieff)
Vanity
Related concepts
seeking approval
need for admiration
showing off
pride
The Devil
pretense
image consciousness
needing praise
More in Fourth Way (Gurdjieff)
- A, B, C Influences
- Being-Partkdolg-Duty
- Buffers
- Chief Feature
- Conscious Faith
- Conscious Hope
- Conscious Labor
- Conscious Love
- Considering (External)
- Considering (Internal)
- Endlessness
- Enneagram
- Essence
- Exioëhary
- False Personality
- Fifth Striving
- First Striving
- Five Being-Obligolnian Strivings
- Food for the Moon
- Formatory Apparatus
- Fourth Striving
- Fourth Way
- Gurdjieff Movements
- Hanbledzoin
- Helkdonis
- Heptaparaparshinokh (Law of Seven)
- Higher Emotional Center
- Higher Intellectual Center
- Holy Planet Purgatory
- Hydrogens
- Identification
- Imagination
- Intentional Suffering
- Irankipaekh
- Kesdjan Body
- Knowledge and Being
- Kundabuffer
- Law of Accident
- Magnetic Center
- Mechanicalness
- Merciless Heropass (Time)
- Multiple I's
- Negative Emotions
- Objective Art
- Personality
- Ray of Creation
- Real I
- Remorse of Conscience
- Sacred Being-Impulses
- Second Striving
- Self-Calming
- Self-Observation
- Self-Remembering
- Shocks
- The Absolute
- The Work
- Third Striving
- Three Lines of Work
- Triamazikamno (Law of Three)
- Trogoautoegocrat
- Waking Sleep
- Will (Real Will)