A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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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Only super-efforts count.
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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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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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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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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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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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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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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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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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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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