Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
G. I. GURDJIEFFMan must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
G. I. GURDJIEFFEvery ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIt is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
G. I. GURDJIEFFAs long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIt is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
G. I. GURDJIEFFTwo things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
G. I. GURDJIEFFYou can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
G. I. GURDJIEFFFrom looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
G. I. GURDJIEFFAwakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLove of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
G. I. GURDJIEFFTake the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIt 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPersonality 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPractice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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