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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBlessed 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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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
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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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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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Never think of results, just do!
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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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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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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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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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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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