By teaching others you will learn yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFF
G. I. GURDJIEFF
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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Awakening 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. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Patience is the mother of will.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff 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.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff 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.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff 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.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff 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.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Never think of results, just do!
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff
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