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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFWish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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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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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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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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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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Never think of results, just 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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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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Patience is the mother of will.
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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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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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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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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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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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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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