With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
G. I. GURDJIEFFAwakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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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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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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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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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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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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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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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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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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