You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
G. I. GURDJIEFFTo 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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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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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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Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
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Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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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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It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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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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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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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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Patience is the mother of will.
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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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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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