The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
G. I. GURDJIEFFRemember yourself always and everywhere.
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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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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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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To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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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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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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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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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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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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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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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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Patience is the mother of will.
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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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