Common aim is stronger than blood.
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.
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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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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Patience is the mother of will.
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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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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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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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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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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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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
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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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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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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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