I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFAs long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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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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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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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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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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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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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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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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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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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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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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