Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
G. I. GURDJIEFFTake the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
G. I. GURDJIEFFConsciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
G. I. GURDJIEFFAwakening 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
G. I. GURDJIEFFReal love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPatience is the mother of will.
G. I. GURDJIEFFI ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBelieve nothing, not even yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBlessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
G. I. GURDJIEFFYou can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
G. I. GURDJIEFFWhat you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPractice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
G. I. GURDJIEFFConscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
G. I. GURDJIEFFHumanity 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPractice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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