From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIt 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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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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Only super-efforts count.
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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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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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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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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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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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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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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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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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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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Remember 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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The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
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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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Consciousness 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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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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