Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
G. I. GURDJIEFFYou can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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Patience is the mother of will.
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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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Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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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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It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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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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Only super-efforts count.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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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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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of 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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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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It 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.
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Never think of results, just do!
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One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.
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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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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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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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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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