G. I. Gurdjieff on chance
G. I. Gurdjieff75 quotes“He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.”
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff 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.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff 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.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff 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.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.
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