G. I. Gurdjieff on crowd
G. I. Gurdjieff75 quotes“What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.”
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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff 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.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff In 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. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff 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.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Never think of results, just do!
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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