If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
More G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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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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Never think of results, just do!
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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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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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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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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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To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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Only super-efforts count.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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