What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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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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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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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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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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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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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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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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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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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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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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