Love without knowledge is demonic.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
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Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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Never think of results, just do!
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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Patience is the mother of will.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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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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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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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.
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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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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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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 first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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