Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
G. I. GURDJIEFFConsciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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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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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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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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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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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
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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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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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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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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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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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