Love without knowledge is demonic.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBegin with the possible; begin with one step.
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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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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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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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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
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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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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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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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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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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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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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