Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBegin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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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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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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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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Patience is the mother of will.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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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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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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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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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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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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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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