Believe nothing, not even yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFOnly super-efforts count.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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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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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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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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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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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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The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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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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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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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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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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