Patience is the mother of will.
G. I. GURDJIEFFYou can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
More G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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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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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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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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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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Only super-efforts count.
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To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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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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