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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFHope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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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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Better to die than live in sleep.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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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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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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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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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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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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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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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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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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