Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
G. I. GURDJIEFFAll who have come to me must have enema each day.
More G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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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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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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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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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Never think of results, just do!
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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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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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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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Only super-efforts count.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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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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