Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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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To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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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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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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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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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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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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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
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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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