Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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.
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Humanity 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.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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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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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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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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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.
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It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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Never think of results, just do!
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Patience is the mother of will.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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Sincerity 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.
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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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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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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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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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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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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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