If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBy teaching others you will learn yourself.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
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It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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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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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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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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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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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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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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