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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBelieve nothing, not even yourself.
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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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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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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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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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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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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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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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
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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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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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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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