Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
G. I. GURDJIEFFHope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLove of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
G. I. GURDJIEFFMan must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLaughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
G. I. GURDJIEFFReligion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
G. I. GURDJIEFFReal love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIt 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFNothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
G. I. GURDJIEFFConscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
G. I. GURDJIEFFRemember yourself always and everywhere.
G. I. GURDJIEFFTwo things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThat which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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