You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
G. I. GURDJIEFFRemember 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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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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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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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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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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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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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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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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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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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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