Only super-efforts count.
G. I. GURDJIEFFAwakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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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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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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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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Better to die than live in sleep.
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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
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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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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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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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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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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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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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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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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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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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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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