If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPatience is the mother of will.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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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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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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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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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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Never think of results, just do!
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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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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.
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
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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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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.
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