Believe nothing, not even yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFF
One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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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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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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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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Better to die than live in sleep.
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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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Patience is the mother of will.
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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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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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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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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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Only super-efforts count.
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