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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe 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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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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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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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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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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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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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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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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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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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.
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Never think of results, just do!
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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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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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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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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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