Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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.
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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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Only super-efforts count.
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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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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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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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Personality 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.
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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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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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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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