Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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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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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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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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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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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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It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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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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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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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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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Only super-efforts count.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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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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