A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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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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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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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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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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Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
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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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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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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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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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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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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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