If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLife is real only then, when “I am”.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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Better to die than live in sleep.
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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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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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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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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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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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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 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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