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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFConsciousness 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFI ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPatience is the mother of will.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
G. I. GURDJIEFFHe who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
G. I. GURDJIEFFRemember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
G. I. GURDJIEFFAll who have come to me must have enema each day.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThat which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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. GURDJIEFFOne 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.
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. GURDJIEFFAs long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
G. I. GURDJIEFFCommon aim is stronger than blood.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIt is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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