What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf 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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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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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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Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
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Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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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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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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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Patience is the mother of will.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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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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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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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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