Only super-efforts count.
G. I. GURDJIEFFOnly super-efforts count.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIt 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLife is real only then, when “I am”.
G. I. GURDJIEFFReal love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFEvery grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
G. I. GURDJIEFFA miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
G. I. GURDJIEFFOne 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. GURDJIEFFPractice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
G. I. GURDJIEFFMy way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
G. I. GURDJIEFFHope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBy teaching others you will learn yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFMan has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThere is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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