Love without knowledge is demonic.
G. I. GURDJIEFFRemember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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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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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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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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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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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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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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