Better to die than live in sleep.
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.
More G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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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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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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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against 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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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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