Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIt 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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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
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One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.
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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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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 greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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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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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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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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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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