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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIn 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBetter to die than live in sleep.
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. GURDJIEFFSincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
G. I. GURDJIEFFMan must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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. GURDJIEFFAs long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
G. I. GURDJIEFFTwo things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBy teaching others you will learn yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIt is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFEvery grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
G. I. GURDJIEFFA miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBegin with the possible; begin with one step.
G. I. GURDJIEFFTo know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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