You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
G. I. GURDJIEFFYou can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIn properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
G. I. GURDJIEFFReal love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
G. I. GURDJIEFFHumanity 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBetter to die than live in sleep.
G. I. GURDJIEFFWith thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
G. I. GURDJIEFFTo know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
G. I. GURDJIEFFCommon aim is stronger than blood.
G. I. GURDJIEFFMan must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBlessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
G. I. GURDJIEFFWhat you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
G. I. GURDJIEFFOne 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.
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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFNothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLove without knowledge is demonic.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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