Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
G. I. GURDJIEFFReal love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
G. I. GURDJIEFFConsciousness 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFWithout struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLaughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPersonality 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFMan must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
G. I. GURDJIEFFHope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIt is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
G. I. GURDJIEFFCommon aim is stronger than blood.
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