If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
G. I. GURDJIEFFI ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Never think of results, just do!
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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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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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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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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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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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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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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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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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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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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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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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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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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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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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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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