Patience is the mother of will.
G. I. GURDJIEFFFrom 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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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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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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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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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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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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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
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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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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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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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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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