Believe nothing, not even yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFYou can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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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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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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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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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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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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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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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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Only super-efforts count.
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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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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
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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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