To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLove of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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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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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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Only super-efforts count.
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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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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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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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The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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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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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 man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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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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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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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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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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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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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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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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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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