The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf 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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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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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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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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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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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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Patience is the mother of will.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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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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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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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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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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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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