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. GURDJIEFFIt 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.
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One 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.
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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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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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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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One 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.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Patience is the mother of will.
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