Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
G. I. GURDJIEFF
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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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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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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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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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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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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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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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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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 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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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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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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