Only super-efforts count.
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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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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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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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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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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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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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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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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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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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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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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