One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
More G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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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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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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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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Better to die than live in sleep.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
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The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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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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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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