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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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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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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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Only super-efforts count.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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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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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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