Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
G. I. GURDJIEFFSincerity 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 can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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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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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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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
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Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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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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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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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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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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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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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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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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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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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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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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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.
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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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