Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
G. I. GURDJIEFF
G. I. GURDJIEFF
G. I. Gurdjieff
G. I. Gurdjieff75 quotes“Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.”
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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.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Never think of results, just do!
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff 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
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