Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
G. I. GURDJIEFFRemember yourself always and everywhere.
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Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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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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The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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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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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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The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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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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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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Humanity 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.
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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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