I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLife is real only then, when “I am”.
More G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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Patience is the mother of will.
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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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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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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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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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To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
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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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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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It 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.
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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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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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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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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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