Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
G. I. GURDJIEFFEvery grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Never think of results, just do!
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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
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Only super-efforts count.
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Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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