I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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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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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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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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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 greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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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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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Patience is the mother of will.
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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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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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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
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