Only super-efforts count.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBy teaching others you will learn yourself.
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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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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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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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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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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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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
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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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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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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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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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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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